Colmar. Autumn

A tall half-timbered house with a red tiled roof and three rows of dormer windows anchors the center of a small square, flanked by pink and pale-yellow buildings and a shaded arcade. A bronze figure stands atop a column to the left, and a low iron railing with clusters of pink flowering shrubs lines the foreground pavement.

Rendered in pastel with visible crosshatched strokes, the palette moves between soft blues and grays and warm ochre and coral in the timbering and roof tiles, under a pale, even daylight. The careful, linear treatment of the architecture gives the street a calm, orderly charm.