{"product_id":"the-last-painting-of-sara-de-vos-a-novel","title":"The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel","description":"Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, At the Edge of a Wood, hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. The lawyer’s marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting an exhibition in her field of specialization: female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When it becomes apparent that both the original At the Edge of a Wood and her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47842499395810,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-8.10-568","price":36.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_83_IIT1L4d9.jpg?v=1780134055","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-last-painting-of-sara-de-vos-a-novel","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}