Paris, France – Anyone who read The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure knows that the Dropsical Woman – masterpiece by Gerrit Dou – used to hang in the Louvre in the Salon Carré alongside the Mona Lisa.
Also, we never knew that this painting originally had a painted chassis (doors that viewers opened to reveal the painting). The chassis is now displayed beside the painting itself.
Now, the Dropsical Woman is back with the rest of the Dutch collection. But what a collection! The best collection of Dou paintings we have seen in one place – even better than the Rijksmuseum. My co-author was in heaven.
And the twin-agers? They humored us for a while. Then they went off to explore the Louvre on their own, and V got lost. Then they speed-ran the Egyptian collection. And then V declared that art is overrated. So, yeah.