3 de Julho

"We are travellers in the wilderness

of this world, and the best we can find

in our travels is an honest friend"

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Childhood Friends, c. 1855

Carl Spitzweg

Lenbachhaus, Munich

Dedicated to: Jonay, o venezuelano

11 de Junho

"A pipe is the troubled soul what

caresses of a mother are fr her

suffering child"

Indian Proverb

Two Turkish Men in a Coffee House, 1860

Carl Spitzweg

Private Collection

7 de Abril

"Use what talents you possess;

the woods would be very silent

if no birds sang there

except those that sang best"

Henry Van Dyke

A Visit, c. 1850

Carl Spitzweg

Private Collection

22 de Fevereiro

"There are only two styles

of portrait paintings;

the serious and the smirk"

Charles Dickens

The Portrait Painter, c. 1858

Carl Spitzweg

Private Collection