b'if some insect had feasted here and there. Inside the holes, indeed observed through them, the artist included tiny figure groups in the distance. Ruttenberg seemed pleased when I asked her whether she knew Ren Magrittes 1948 painting Le Rendez-vous, with tiny birds silhouetted against a giant leaf, jumping from large to small scale in a similar mindset. Indicat-ed only as a slight drawing, the large figure seated in the middle with leaves in her hair is a much enlarged approximation of the figure of a river goddess in a print by Marcantonio Raimondi after a lost Raphael painting that directly inspired Manets Le Djeuner sur lHerbe (1863), the zaniest and best-known of his pioneering park paintings. This particular figure, based on an Old Master print, is among Ruttenbergs favorites. As a ghost-like presence, it shares center stage again in Birds in the Park, her giant painting Left: Detail from Morning Glories.Right: Le Rendez-vous, by Ren Magritte, 1948.'