Nº 1
Reading edition
George Poggenbeek DUTCH: 1853-1903
EARLY EVENING
Water Color
Height, 15½ inches; width, 11½ inches
A low cottage, near which stand two leafless trees, their straggling branches extending out of the picture, is the prominent object in the composition, and is silhouetted against a quiet sky. In the foreground on the left are small wooden coops and the roof of an outbuilding, and on the right is a path bordered by a row of a small bushes. The glow of lamplight in the cottage window, which is partly screened by an opaque curtain, indicates that twilight is near.
Signed at the lower left, G. Poggenbeek.