Oil on panel
40 X 33 cm with frame
Two elegant women strolling with their bazoi are talking in a park near a statue: this composition, with its photographic framing and Verlainian accents, is a chronicle of the worldly elegance of the late 19th century. This painting recalls the lines of Paul Verlaine's famous poem "Mon rêve familier": "I often have this strange and penetrating dream ...... Her gaze is similar to the gaze of statues, and for her distant, calm, and serious voice, she has the inflection of dear voices that have fallen silent".
