Led into temptation or La Jeune Martyre....

a painting I first saw when I visited the Louvre. I liked it so much that I bought a postcard. With the exception of my postcard, I haven’t seen it again until yesterday. I was on my second trip to Michael’s Craft Store to have a Last Supper dry mounted. (Now I know they want cash up front for custom services....) In the morning I was told that the job would be done by April 11. The fellow in the afternoon said he could take care of it while I wait. So I amused myself by flipping through their sale assortment of stock posters. ($12.99 marked down to $6) The first poster I saw was Delaroche’s La Jeune Martyre.

Then there was an assortment of Edmund Blair Leighton - Godspeed, The Accolade and some others. Plus some other relatively obscure Pre-Raphaelites.

My first impulse was to take one of each. I mean........really........I don’t think I could have found these works if I had been looking for them. Then I thought maybe this was a good time to practice detachment. And preserve the grocery budget. I didn’t have to possess these.........I can see them on the internet any time I want. I didn’t have to bring them home.

If La Jeune Martyre is still there next time.......maybe I am meant to buy it.
But not this week.