Countryside

A sunlit, sloping field of dry golden grass leads back to a cluster of wooden houses with carved window frames, a taller blue house, and a distant white church topped by green onion domes. Laundry hangs drying on a line strung between two poles at left. In the foreground an artist's easel holds an unfinished portrait of a young woman beside a wooden paint box, with a small fir tree standing to the right.

Warm ochre and pale gold dominate the palette, softened by muted blue-grey shadows on the houses, under a hazy, even daylight. The paint is applied smoothly with fine detail in the architecture, giving the whole scene a quiet, sun-warmed stillness.