Empty Parlour

I'm just another reality escaping specimen. So, make yourself comfortable and enjoy strolling through my rooms. May I serve you some tea? It's mainly about art, historical fashion, books, architecture and everything else that gives a little peek into my hidden hatbox

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Alfred Stevens, Scheveningen Sands, (1884)

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Ralph Hedley, Reading Woman, (1888)

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I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart    

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Augustus Jules Bouvier, Sunday Afternoon, (not dated)

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Marie Egner, Pomegranates on a Window Sill (Behind Venice), (not dated)

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Julius LeBlanc Stewart, The Goldsmith Ladies in the Bois de Boulogne in a Peugeot 'Voiturette' 1897, (1901)

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Nicolaas van der Waay, Orphan Girls Walking to te Left, (not dated)

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François Flameng, Napoleon I and the King of Rome at Saint-Cloud in 1811, (1896)

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Touch has a memory.

John Keats

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Jean Béraud, Cathédrale américaine de Paris, (~1900)

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Education of the children of Clovis (School of veneance, Training of Clotilde's sons), (1861)

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Johann Zoffany, The Sharp Family, (1780)

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Frederic Leighton, Portrait of May Sartoris, (1860)

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Jacob Jordaens, The Family of the Artist by Jacob Jordaens, (~1621)

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Song of the Angels, (1881)

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Konstantin Somov, Portrait of a Woman (Lady in Blue), (1897-1900)

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DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

Terry Pratchett - Good Omens