Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women, Art, and the Sexual Politics of (Mis)representation in Edith Wharton -- 1. Beauty Enshrined: Living Pictures and Still Lifes -- or, Her Body Becomes His Art -- 2. Picturing Lily: Body Art in The House of Mirth and "The Potboiler" -- or, Her Body Becomes Her Art -- 3. "Beauty Enthroned": The Muse's Progress -- 4. Angels at the Grave: Custodial Work in the Palace of Art -- 5. "We'll look, not at visions, but at realities": Women, Art, and Representation in The Age of Innocence -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index.