Category: Marie Antoinette

Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ~ Self-portrait, 1781-82 [Kimball Art Museum]
➔ The Project Gutenberg [1/3]
➔ The Project Gutenberg [2/3] 
➔ The Project Gutenberg [3/3]

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