Sketching at Cluny

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Julia was always particularly fond of children. In Paris she enjoyed observing them when she visited various picturesque sites around the city, including the 5^th arrondissement’s Musée de Cluny (also known as the Hôtel de Cluny, a French term meaning a palatial urban residence, rather than a hostelry). Julia wrote to Lucy and Pierre LeBrun on 4 October 1896: “Every day I try either to go and see something new and ‘take it in,’ or draw, for an hour or so, at noon – drawing usually in the garden at Cluny – there are lots of children there, and I have come to know twenty or more quite as good friends.”

[Julia Morgan Papers, Special Collections, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2-D-17-10.]