My heart practically stops beating in my chest for a moment as I stare down at the image printed on the glossy pages of the book before me.
Gabby's beautiful face is staring out at me from her paper prison - not once, but twice.
Gabby times two, side by side. In a painting from the freaking 1790's. What the hell?
The image is unmistakably by the same artist who painted Le Prix de la Liberté and Christ of The Roses - Pierre-Narcisse Regnault. But the subject matter is quite different this time - rather than a scene of agony and suffering, this painting captures an altogether different subject. The moment of sublime artistic, musical inspiration.
A literal visit from the Muses.
A young man who looks a lot like pictures I've seen of Mozart, wearing a grey wig and a dark grey coat, waistc
