Girl in hyacinth blue
By: Susan Vreeland
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780140296280
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: College teachers; Fiction
Description: Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.
Table of contents: title: Love enough; title: Night different from all other nights; title: Adagia; title: Hyacinth blues; title: Morningshine; title: From the personal papers of Adriaan Kuypers; title: Still life; title: Magdalena looking.