Sunlight drifts over the Seine as Notre-Dame's pale limestone facade and twin towers rise through a soft morning haze. Poplars along the quay tremble with fresh spring green, their leaves echoed in the gently rippling river below. Loose, broken brushwork scatters cream, sage and silver-blue across the canvas, catching the shimmer of light on water and stone in an airy, luminous celebration of Paris at daybreak.