Rameau and coffee

  The extraordinary dialogue
  between a morning in Spring
  and the ruminations of Jean-
  Philippe Rameau at his key-
  board: which came first, we
  aren't the first to wonder.

  Coffee, on the other hand,
  is more challenging. It in-
  sinuates, it transforms at-
  tention. Fragonard's silent
  pet.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Music Lesson
ca 1768

Angela Hewitt
  soloist and essayist
Rameau: Keyboard Suites
1728
Hyperion Records Ltd, 2007©

Jean Puiforcat
Initiales
ca 1928
Cup and saucer