The Swans, Frank Brangwyn. I don’t know the size or present location. The image is from William Morris Gallery, posted during an exhibit; large image here.
Like many art images, you will see versions of this one on the internet in which someone has put it into an image editor and cranked up the saturation to make it more “pretty”.
Brangwyn’s sense of color and value is actually quite subtle here, particularly the way he’s handled the shadows on the swans. THe “white” areas are not “white”, even though our eyes read them that way; they’re cool in the shadows, warm in the highlights. However, even the cool areas have worm colors in them.
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