Category: Marcel Proust

Let them eat cake

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Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin ~ La Brioche or Le Dessert, 1763 [Louvre, Paris, France]

“We have learned from Chardin that a pear is as living as a woman, that an ordinary piece of pottery is as beautiful as a precious stone.” – Marcel Proust
Edouard Manet ~ Nature Morte à la Brioche, 1880