Monday 10th February
We tried to go to the Musee de l'Aquitaine but it was closed on Mondays (silly us for not checking) so we went to the Musée des Beaux-Arts instead. This is one of the largest art galleries of France outside Paris, and includes a collection of works by French and Dutch painters.
This painting, View of Bordeaux from Floirac by Jean-Paul Alaux (1850) really caught my eye as the bridge, Pont de Pierre, is very near our apartment and still looks the same, 170 years later!
Detail from View of Bordeaux from Floirac by Jean-Paul Alaux (1850), showing the bridge Pont de Pierre.
Pont de Pierre taken from the other side of the river from the spot where this painting was done, on a stunning blue-sky day, 170 years later.
Although I couldn't see any signs forbidding photography, a stern attendant shook his finger at me
when I was taking this photo, and then seemed to follow me around the whole gallery, so I thought it prudent not to take any more. There were a few Renoirs and a Picasso I would have liked to capture.
Edouard Manet: La Dejeuner sur l'Herbe 1863, in the Musee d'Orsay. And I did take this picture.
I was struck by the similarity between the two nudes of Parrot and Manet, with Parrot's being painted five years after Manet's. Manet's painting caused such a scandal when exhibited in 1863 as it represented a marked departure from the academic tradition of only depicting mythological figures in the nude, so Parrot, who exhibited at the Salon Paris, from 1861 onwards, must have known about it.
Joanie was asking if Chef Stuart has been unleashing his creative talents in the kitchen. Well yes he has. That night we enjoyed Stuart's Croque Monsieur (cheese on toast).
We tried to go to the Musee de l'Aquitaine but it was closed on Mondays (silly us for not checking) so we went to the Musée des Beaux-Arts instead. This is one of the largest art galleries of France outside Paris, and includes a collection of works by French and Dutch painters.
This painting, View of Bordeaux from Floirac by Jean-Paul Alaux (1850) really caught my eye as the bridge, Pont de Pierre, is very near our apartment and still looks the same, 170 years later!
Detail from View of Bordeaux from Floirac by Jean-Paul Alaux (1850), showing the bridge Pont de Pierre.
Pont de Pierre taken from the other side of the river from the spot where this painting was done, on a stunning blue-sky day, 170 years later.
Although I couldn't see any signs forbidding photography, a stern attendant shook his finger at me
when I was taking this photo, and then seemed to follow me around the whole gallery, so I thought it prudent not to take any more. There were a few Renoirs and a Picasso I would have liked to capture.
Phillipe Parrot: Elegie1868 (Image from Wikipedia, not mine!)
Edouard Manet: La Dejeuner sur l'Herbe 1863, in the Musee d'Orsay. And I did take this picture.
I was struck by the similarity between the two nudes of Parrot and Manet, with Parrot's being painted five years after Manet's. Manet's painting caused such a scandal when exhibited in 1863 as it represented a marked departure from the academic tradition of only depicting mythological figures in the nude, so Parrot, who exhibited at the Salon Paris, from 1861 onwards, must have known about it.
Joanie was asking if Chef Stuart has been unleashing his creative talents in the kitchen. Well yes he has. That night we enjoyed Stuart's Croque Monsieur (cheese on toast).
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