My husband had a dream last night we were in Paris for the weekend – during the city’s lockdown – browsing around a department store when we weren’t supposed to. What a thrill! While we don’t have the freedom to travel to the city of light at the moment, we at least have our (bizarre) dreams, and these poetic paintings of Paris. At first glance, they look old-fashioned, but are actually contemporary, painted recently by a native Parisienne, Fabienne Delacroix (such a great name). She’s been painting since the age of 10 years old and is known for her poetic and nostalgic scenes of Paris and elsewhere.
Discover more of Fabienne Delacroix’s work here.
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Hello Ellie,
Just discovered the site and having a good explore.
As you may know the second picture in your post on Poetic Paintings of Bygone Paris is not actually in Paris, but at Chatou to the west of the city.
It’s the Maison Fournaisse, the setting for Auguste Renoir’s ‘Déjeuner des canotiers’, the painting being painted from what is the first floor of a restaurant set within the building. The balcony on which the people in the painting are shown is at the other end of the building.
Maison Fournaisse is on a small island in the Seine with road, train and obviously boat connections nearby.
There’s also a separate small museum on site.
Fabienne has taken a small liberty with the Eiffel Tower… it can’t be seen from the view painted.
But that’s artistic licence!