La Belle Noiseuse 91
In the south of France at the Chateau dAssas, Nicholas and Marianne go to visit the old yet famous painter Frenhofer. Nicholas is a young painter seeking to meet a master painter. Frenhofer has however been inactive for years and may not be the best model for Nicholas to have chosen as a young painter trying to find inspiration. After some initial exchanges, the conversation between them begins to die off when Nicholas suggests that Frenhofer use Marianne as a new model to help inspire him. He was working on a painting he had long ago abandoned using his wife as a model. With Marianne he decides to take another chance at finishing the uncompleted art work. Marianne is at first somewhat reluctant to become a model for the old driedup artist. Frenhofer is not much better in warming up to his new model. He makes various pen and ink drawings of her with washes in trying to acquaint himself with his new model. The preparatory pen and ink washes he draws begin to take hold upon his artistic imagination and
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