The Simple Pleasures of the Trivial Mind 11-7-15

Basically both Deb and I like a simple life, we simply do what we want most of the time.  Today was no different.  We planned to do one thing and ended up doing something else, again.  Being Saturday and having no guinguette to run to for a last nice day on the Seine.  We thought we would go over to the big Paul Bert antiques market, it's over next to major Paris flea market at Clignancourt in the 18th arr. but I took a quick look to see what other markets might be available and there was one on Avenue de Flandre just across the canal.  So we walked the 10 minute walk over and spent the day perusing the gaggle of vendors that set up over there.  We are pretty committed to this market because we've had more hunting luck there than any of the other markets.  Luck is not measured in major finds but more in just interesting little things we find.
You may remember that I bought a print from the auction house, Hotel Drouot, a couple months back.  Well that set in motion a flurry of activity in Denver of all places.   We belong to the Rocky Mountain Print Collectors, a club dedicated to the enjoyment and collecting of original art that is created in multiples.   That particular print was created by a company, Cadart, who was instrumental in the creation of fine prints as collectibles for the non-wealthy art connoisseur in the middle and later part of the 19th century.
Long story short we somehow got roped into doing a presentation on Cadart and their prints.  Now at the time we only had one print, not very impressive for a collection.  So Deb found one being offered on Ebay by our friend, Jeff Jeremias, and bought it.  Then we had two, so yesterday at our little market I found a third, whew!  Now we have a small collection.  It was created around 1851 and depicts a street that is no longer in existence, having been destroyed around 1864 after a run of 600 plus years, a victim of the Haussmann reconstruction of Paris.
Later we went for dinner at Art et Science Reuniss, our local restaurant that we like so well.