A #snail for a slow Sunday:
Édouard Manet (French, 1832-83)
Letter Decorated with a Snail on a Leaf
1880
Watercolor over gray wash (design); pen & ink (text), on machine-made laid paper
15.8 × 11.7 cm
Getty Museum https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109NVR
“The snail perched on a leaf offers a laconic metaphor for the artist's situation in the summer of 1880, when he found himself more or less trapped in his Bellevue garden by a paralyzed leg that slowed his movements to a snail's pace.”
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