My favorite indulgences. Below is a painting by Louis Leopold Boilly that I admire and one of the famous quotes by George Eliot... The painting and the poetry blend with each other perfectly.
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| A GIRL AT A WINDOW BY LOUIS LEOPOLD BOILLY (1761-1845) |
“She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that
lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road
there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby;
in the field she could see figures moving - perhaps the shepherd with
his dog. Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt
the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and
endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and
could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere
spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
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