V novoy knige «Kartinnye devushki. Muzy i hudozhniki: ot Velaskesa do Anatoliya Zvereva» Anna Matveeva prodolzhaet rasskazyvat o sudbah naturschits i muz izvestnyh hudozhnikov i o samih hudozhnikah.
Geroi knigi - Diego Velaskes i Margarita Tereza, Zhak-Lui David i Zhyulett Rekame, Ivan Ayvazovskiy i Anna Burnazyan, Ivan Kramskoy i Neizvestnaya, Dzhon Singer Sardzhent i Virzhini-Ameli Gotro, Edvard Munk i Dagni Yul-Pshibyshevskaya, Boris Kustodiev i Yuliya Proshinskaya, Arkadiy Plastov i Natalya fon Vik, Fernan Lezhe i Nadya Hodasevich, Anatoliy Zverev i Kseniya Aseeva.
«Eta kniga - vtoraya chast moih volnyh izyskaniy v oblasti iskusstvoznaniya, kollektsiya esse o naturschitsah vydayuschihsya hudozhnikov i, razumeetsya, o samih hudozhnikah, sredi kotoryh Plastov i Ayvazovskiy, David i Sardzhent, Munk i Lezhe. Tema vzaimootnosheniy modeli i mastera - neischerpaema, ob etom mozhno rasskazyvat vechno? V novoy knige desyat istoriy. A te voprosy, kotorye ya stavila pered soboy vo vremya raboty, ostalis neizmennymi. Kem byla ta zhenschina, kotoruyu my vidim na horosho znakomoy kartine? Kakoy ona byla? Sumel by hudozhnik stat masterom bez neyo?» (Anna Matveeva)
