Le rendez-vous d'onze heures #[nn]

A graphic biography of the celebrated French painter Gustave Courbet, Le Rendez-vous d'onze heures from Éditions du Long Bec brings the 19th-century art world to vivid life. The cover — rendered in lush, painterly detail by André Houot — places a bearded, self-assured Courbet in the foreground, palette and brush in hand, while a reclining nude figure rests behind him against a backdrop of grand Parisian architecture. It's a striking visual introduction to a biography that promises to explore the man behind the canvas with the same bold confidence he brought to his art.