a "D", two corners, and a spot ... signifiers anticipating a mid-morning narrative

night must fall on paris

if you ever run out of ideas when you are redecorating ...

cat

the old ballroom in the gare d'orsay

metalwork

signage

a few bits of old stained glass

blue stuff

what's the french for wurzel gummidge ?

red stuff, green stuff

what should a discerning librarianette nibble whilst watching all four episodes of lost in austen for the third time ?

some of the astonishing rubens series commissioned by marie de medici to celebrate and legitimize her regency of the french throne

... after her husband's unfortunate assassination

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225634&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225634&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500812&bmLocale=en

in the louvre ... the big (next?) version of the national gallery's picture by the anonymous master of the saint bartholomew altarpiece

!!! not ingres but gericault !!! predicting/preceding balthus

http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=15358

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gericault

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthus

and here's a sharper image of the strange little painting from the louvre's website ...

insouciance