In the canon
The Unknown Masterpiece
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1831
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 37
An old master has worked ten years on one secret painting of a woman, and a young Poussin offers up his own lover as a model in exchange for a single look at it.
The aim of art is not to copy nature, but to express it.
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