Summer Bloom by Joaquim Vayreda, roughly 52 x 104 inches (130 x 263 cm).
Link is to Google Art Project; downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.
We can start the summer with this beautifully idyllic pastoral scene by 19th century Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda.
The wide aspect ratio — something we might call “cinematic ” today — adds a sense of grandeur and a feeling of theatre. I like the shape of the water and its surface patterns, as well as Vayreda’s soft touch with the background foliage,
