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Summer Night in Spain (circa 1926)

George Elmer Browne (American, 1871–1946)

Warm Spanish air hums with cicadas. A lone lantern glows against indigo shadows, casting gold on cobblestones. Somewhere, a guitar string trembles. The night holds its breath between sleep and song.
Night atmosphere at see. Full moon

Carl Locher (Danish, unknown)

Moonlight spills across the dark sea, silvering the restless waves. A full moon hangs heavy in the night sky, its glow stretching toward the horizon where water meets darkness. The scene hums with quiet tension—the vastness of ocean and sky pressing against each other under that luminous watch.
Coucher de Soleil en Brière

Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (French, 1864–1930)

Golden light spills across the marsh, turning reeds to fire. The water mirrors the sky’s last blaze before dusk swallows the horizon. Shadows stretch long over the quiet wetlands, where the day’s final glow lingers like a held breath.
Le balcon de Jaurès (circa 1915)

Henri Martin (French, 1860–1943)

A woman leans on the balcony railing, bathed in the soft glow of evening. The city stretches below, its rooftops dissolving into hazy blues and purples. Light catches the folds of her dress, blending with the dreamlike brushstrokes of the scene—quiet, intimate, suspended in twilight.
Sunset Over Water

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)

Golden light bleeds into the water, dissolving the horizon. Clouds swirl like smoke, their edges burning crimson. The sea swallows the sun’s last embers, rippling with molten reflections. For a moment, everything is fire and liquid—then night pulls its curtain across the sky.
Sunset (1865–66)

Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)

Golden light spills across the sky, igniting clouds in fiery hues. The horizon glows, dissolving into deep blues where land meets water. Shadows stretch long beneath the trees, their silhouettes sharp against the dying light. A fleeting moment—warmth fading, night approaching—holds its breath.
Une soirée au Pré-Catelan (1909)

Henri Gervex (French, 1852–1929)

Laughter floats through the lantern-lit garden as silk skirts brush against tailored suits. Glasses clink under the trees, their reflections shimmering in dark puddles from an earlier rain. Paris hums beyond the hedges, but here, time stretches like the shadows across damp gravel.
Summer Evening on Skagen Beach, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1899)

Peder Severin Krøyer (Danish, unknown)

Golden light spills across the shore as a woman stands barefoot in the sand, her white dress catching the breeze. The sea melts into twilight behind her, all soft blues and fading warmth. There’s a quiet here—the hush of waves, the cool touch of evening air on sun-warmed skin.
Dreams (ca. 1861)

Frederic William Burton (Irish, unknown)

A woman’s face, half-lit in shadow, drifts between sleep and waking. Her lips part slightly, as if whispering to unseen figures in the dark. The folds of her nightgown catch the faintest glow—something lingers just beyond the edge of vision.