Harpignies #[nn]

Two young women — one in a pink jacket, one in a red coat and top hat — stroll hand in hand in front of a grand gilded frame enclosing a luminous 19th-century landscape painting of bare trees and open sky. The contrast between the animated, contemporary figures and the serene classical artwork gives this Élinc and Darnaudet collaboration (part of Paquet's Collection Blandice) an immediately warm and art-world-savvy atmosphere. Published in 2014, it's a visually elegant invitation into a story where art history and present-day life clearly walk side by side.