Like his "In the garden" this one, too, seems to epitomize of the power of impressionism.
At first glance it may seem a bit bleak, but for me it captures simply and succinctly a quiet moment in the lives of two people who happen to be sitting in the same room: one staring out to sea, hypnotized by the infinite perhaps, the other just having looked up from his book, thinking about the passage he had just read, or perhaps something else altogether unknown.
At first glance it may seem a bit bleak, but for me it captures simply and succinctly a quiet moment in the lives of two people who happen to be sitting in the same room: one staring out to sea, hypnotized by the infinite perhaps, the other just having looked up from his book, thinking about the passage he had just read, or perhaps something else altogether unknown.
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| Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA, 1871 |
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