Description
Morning on the Pont des Arts, and the painters are already setting up: folding stools, battered easels, a thermos of strong coffee. One woman in a wide straw hat opens a little paint box and squints at the river, deciding whether today’s water is grey, green or silver. A pigeon lands on her stool, considers her palette, and leaves unimpressed. She laughs and wets her brush.
By noon her paper holds the bridges, a barge and the dome across the water, all in quick, wet strokes that dry almost as fast as she lays them down. This box nods to that much-loved tradition of painting outdoors in France. Consider it for an art teacher, a weekend watercolorist, a museum lover, or a student about to spend a semester abroad in Paris. Display it on a studio shelf among brushes in jars and tubes of paint, or on a bookcase with heavy art books and exhibition catalogues.
The details
- Designed as an artist’s paint box, the kind carried out to paint by the river
- Decorated with a France theme
- Painted by hand on porcelain in the workshops of Limoges, France
- A fitting keepsake for anyone who paints, sketches or teaches art
- Equally at home in a studio, a classroom or a reading nook
It may be just the nudge someone needs to finally buy that easel, and a reminder that every masterpiece starts with a single color.
