MIT/French Library Author Series: Camille de Peretti presents Portrait of an Unknown Woman
French Library 53 Marlborough Street, BostonIn 1910, Gustav Klimt painted a young woman, then painted over her portrait. The painting was stolen in 1997 and unexpectedly resurfaced two decades later. Camille de Peretti uses this intriguing chapter in art history to imagine the woman behind the painting and the generations that follow her.