baudelaire-new-school-smallAmong the tableaux being exhibited through January 20 by the Musée de la vie Romantique in Paris for its exhibition L’oeil de Baudelaire, commemorating the author’s critical work on the 150th anniversary of his death: Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860),”Ecole de jeunes enfants,” 1846. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Copyright Amsterdam Museum, legs C.J. Fodor. Courtesy Musée de la vie Romantique. In “The Salon of 1846,” chapter VI, ‘Some colorists,’ Baudelaire comments: “‘L’École turque,’ nevertheless, resembles these strong paintings. These are exactly those handsome children that we know, and the dusty atmosphere, suffused with light, of a room which the Sun would like to completely invade.”