Dolce & Gabbana cont.

 

Sunday I went back to the DOLCE & GABBANA exhibit early, 10:00 🕙 The French are still sleeping 😴 The line was short.

I wanted to see their Gift 🎁 Shop

Giovanni Bellini, Jacquemart-André

 

So many exhibits to see in Paris, but one procrastinates. 

And then one never get around to it. Or waits till big warning posters go up in the Metro. Then the masses descend. 

Being an uber-ADHDer who rarely plans ahead, does not help.

Eblouissante Venise - 18th C arts of Venice - Grand Palais

In you're planning on gondoliering in Venice or for around the house elegance pick up a pair of colorful velvet Friulians made by CAPULETTE in the GRANDE PALAIS gift shop (70€) during new exhibit, EBLOUISSANTE VENISE (Magnificent Venice and the arts of Europe in the 18th century. (On till 21 January 2019).

This is a gréât exhibit to see if you're going to Venice, have just been or dream of going.

It will get you in the spirit of things completely.

Amazing paintings by Tiepolo, Guardi,  Canaletto.

And many by one of my favorites, Pietro Longhi.

There's even a resident lion of Venice ensconced. No roaring allowed.

To scale models of Venetian palazzos. When in Venice it can be almost too much to take in.

This exhibit is a way to prep or relive your Venice experience

What THEY wore. The lush fabrications for men and women.

18th century-style paper ballgowns provided by ISABELLE DE BORCHGRAVE hang from the ceiling as you go up to the second floor exhibits

All the decorative arts are represented

Music will be provided during evenings

Music stands are set up on the exhibit floors. Vivaldi awaits in the wings.

They played modern jazz for the press preview.

My favorite Venetian artist CANALETTO was well represented.

Thanks to Elaine Siolino, I went next day to the annual FESTIVAL PECHE EN SEINE held on the l'Ile de la Jatte in Lavalloise-Perret. Kids are taught or anyone for that matter how to fish.

I sketched onsite dreaming of Canaletto...

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Serenissime! Venise en Fete de Tiepolo à Guardi, musee Cognacq-Jay

Friday, in time for Carvival I went to the sneak preview of Serenissime! at lovely small museum..

Cognacq-Jay. On until June 25.

What a splendid exhibit in splendid hôtel Donon, 8, rue Elzevir, 75003 meteo: Saint Paul

60 paintings plus the museum's own collection of Venetian XVIII paintings.

Pietro Longhi  (1702-1785) always delights.

A festive Tiepolo oil with all the figure's backs turned watching a Carnival spectacle on a balcony.

A grand view of perhaps the annual gondala regatta by Francesco Guardi

Another Guardi at Saint marks, a 'veduta painting..large and spectacular. I hope this is a game with all those sticks..hmm

Also popular and much smaller, 'capriccio' paintings depicting imagined fantastical scenes

Often with ruins..

These are from the museum's collection and by Guardi or his 'school'.

A boaty scene..

I did a couple of 'capriccios' whilst in Venice a while back.

I forgot the ruins though...next time.

There are wonderfully painted mirrors as you enter to get you instantly into a festive mood.

If only the French would realize museum-goers do not like to bend low to read the descriptions. At least not this museum-goer. If only Alitalia had a desk so you could grab a ticket to Venice on the way out.

And if only Il Gelato del Marchese had a stand serving cappuccino and gelato.Time to dream of Venice and Carnival. Thanks for reading Parisbreakfast. If you like this post and want to support it, do buy Paris letters and watercolors or forward to a friend.

Arrivaderci Venice!

New Years Day Eve 2015

Last year on New Year's Day Eve I got maybe my best picture ever.

This year not so lucky but I did get a good idea how the beanie vs. the bauble hat battle is going...

Here the new beanie wins the day.

A combination beanie/bauble plus last year's bauble nestle together on the Metro. If they can get along I can adjust. Luckily I brought over my NYC subway No.7 beanie so I'm IN either way.

Swedish Solli sent me illustrator Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) wonderful beanie hats which tops them all.

I was meeting Solli last night to go hear Vivaldi's The Four Seasons at the Madeleine - special concert New Years Day Eve.

Spectacular lights

WOW!

My first time inside too

Solli's picture does much better justice to the Madeleine interior.

Looking up at the painted ceiling I started to imagine the coronation of Napoleon was here.

Not so.

He crowned himself at Notre Dame in fact.

Exquisite preparatory sketch by Jacques Louis David

Of Josephine for the official commissioned coronation painting now in the Louvre.

A sweet winged angel near the exit of the Madeleine. If you've heard Vivaldi's Four Seasons 3-4 Xs (best heard in a smaller church in Venice, his home town) you really don't need to hear it again, unless it's a full orchestra blasting you to kingdom come and who wants that anyway?

Outside the Madeleine, a full  moon.

Rue Royal was looking pretty spectacular.
But nothing like coming home to my own light show on Pont Sully.
A Happy New Year Everyone!!