My book group chose this book - called the "biography of a painting" by many reviewers and critics. It's a "true" story - one with many details missing. Sometimes all the "artistic" details become tedious - unless you are an art scholar - but mostly they are interesting.
And the story of the lives of the young girls in the painting, their parents, John Sargent, Henry James and others whetted my appetite for more - so now I'm reading a biography of Edith Wharton!!It has long resided in the Museum of Art in Boston - drat, we are not going this year - but it's on my list for 2011!
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