Rembrandt's Whore

Informationen zum Autor Sylvie Matton is the author of three novels and four works of non-fiction. She has been an actress and screenwriter. With her husband, the artist and film-maker Charles Matton, she worked for two years on a feature-length film on the life of Rembrandt, which was premiered in Britain in 2001. She lives in France. Klappentext A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to take up a servant's role in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante, and plays witness to the highs and lows of the great artist's life. But Hendrickje is fated to discover the hypocrisy and greed of society in Amsterdam's Golden Age. In sensuous prose, Matton paints a powerful fictional portrait of this impassioned relationship through the eyes of a remarkable woman. Zusammenfassung A fictional account of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's mistress and confidante, published on the 350th anniversary of the artist's death

Product details

• Authors: Sylvie Matton, Matton Sylvie
• Assisted by: Tamsin Black (Translation), Black Tamsin (Translation)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.10.2019
• EAN: 9781786898678
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-867-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Fiction in translation, Netherlands, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary