Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux buttocks basket The Ibis in Egyptian culture

The Ibis in Egyptian culture was traditionally associated with Thoth the god of wisdom and writing

Great in a grouping

so I think it could pass as a fly as well

with room for just a few tall trees around the edges

with the silver plate polishing up nicely

Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux buttocks basket The Ibis in Egyptian cultureMy new favorite antique watercolor. I do seem to be having a bit of a horse moment, with several drawings and paintings of horses currently in the shop, but here it is the whole scene (set at the Saint Cloud race track just outside of Paris), and especially the faces of the riders, that put it over the top. The manner of the painting is also reminding me of Henry Darger, so I am projecting vivid interior lives onto these equestrians, and their horses