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Author:

Laurain, Antoine.

Title:

The Portrait / Antoine Laurain ; translated from the French by Jane Aitken and Emily Boyce.

Publisher:

Gallic Books,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

128 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Art--Collectors and collecting--Fiction.
Paintings--Fiction.
France--Paris--Fiction.
Paris (France)--Fiction.

Summary:

"A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him. While wandering through a Paris auction house, avid collector Pierre-Fran©ʹois Chaumont is stunned to discover the eighteenth-century portrait of an unknown man who looks just like him. Much to his delight, Chaumońt(QA(B(3I(Bs bid for the work is successful, but back at home his jaded wife and circle of friends are unable to see the resemblance. Chaumont remains convinced of it, and as he researches into the paintinǵ(QA(B(3I(Bs history, he is presented with the opportunity to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new lifé(QA(BŒ"--amazon.com.

ISBN:

1910477435
9781910477434

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)