Paris, France
As promised, the VFYT image our Paris bureau chief sent in over the weekend that made Votre Jeune Travailleur get misty. That is a 10-cm oyster reclining in its minerally chaise longue. Compare:
France! Huitres! Je t’aime!
View From Your Table
9 Responses to View From Your Table
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WhollyRoamin says:
You can keep the oyster. I’ll take the girl.
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M_Young says:
No equal time for snail lovers?
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Dan Davis says:
Do you cut that thing up or down it in one gulp?
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mike says:
hmm… the oyster is the girl? I’ll stop while ahead.
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Ken K says:
I thought that this one is a little closer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29
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MH - Secular Misanthropist says:
I prefer William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s version of the Birth of Venus
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_(Bouguereau)
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There is a resemblance, which tells you how little I appreciate the Manet. Thanks for the link, MH – I had thought it was the reclining maja by Goya.
MEH 0910 
I’ve seen that painting before, so I had to do the legwork of finding out its name and painter.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)