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  • Sargent's Women

  • Four Lives Behind the Canvas
  • By: Donna M. Lucey
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
  • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Sargent's Women

By: Donna M. Lucey
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
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Summary

With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives.

Sequestered in a fantasy-land castle in the remote Rocky Mountains, Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild - beautiful, commanding, and poison-tongued - emerged on Sargent's canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister Lucia into an ill-fated life in art; shrewd, iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. Born to unimaginable wealth, these women lived on an operatic scale, and their letters and diaries create a rich depiction of the Gilded Age and the acclaimed but secretive painter whose canvases defined the era.

©2017 Donna M. Lucey (P)2017 HighBridge, A Division of Recorded Books
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Not keen on the narrator

Narration is annoying, male voices are portrayed as flamboyant while female voices are somewhat meek and helpless. Great stories and well written.

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