This is the front cover...its one of her favorite paintings, by Renoir; we happen to have a copy of it made by a friend of my Aunt Martha's. For years I thought it was supposed to be Aunt Martha and a couple of her sisters. One day at our co-op in Maine, they were working with art cards, and one got flipped over and there it was-- The Daughters of Catulle Mendès. I was shaking, thinking OH MY GOSH WE HAVE A RENOIR IN OUR HOUSE!! Within an hour, I found out that no, we didn't, it was a copy done by her friend, and the original is at the Met in NY.
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Your post really made me laugh! :-)
Lapbooks and artist study -- two things I love!
Yea, I suppose I can laugh now. My dreams of being featured on Antiques Roadshow or in a newspaper article about "they never knew they had it" and the millions that went with it diappeared as fast as an actual dollar in my pocket. Still love the painting, though. lol
Great job! We are just about finished with this same one.
Martha
I love it! I am looking forward to working on this one as well.
We are doing the Art Appreciation lapbook as a Lap-n-Note so we can add to it as we do our Charlotte Mason style Artist Studies. We can include lapbook elements and notebooking elements in the same binder.
We are doing the same thing for the composers.
Great Job
Debbie
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