A portrait of a man and a woman fishing in a small brown motor boat is cleverly painted in textured egg tempera. Throughout scene, there is a unity within a dynamic yet serene closeup of a seascape that is made up of intense blues in the water and a matching paler sky that act to frame the figures as they float close to home, where houses, a weir and maybe a wharf or boat landing lie along the brown shore and dark green forested hills. Will they catch anything? They look so absorbed…
Medium: Egg Tempera on Paper. 11 × 14.8 inches (27.9 × 37.5 cm).
Image: 8.6 × 12 inches (21.8 × 30.5 cm).