Description
Two women in hats sit beneath umbrella pines on a grassy slope, a child lying stretched out between them. One wears a straw hat trimmed in red, the other a hat piled with flowers, and beyond the trees a blue bay curves toward a cluster of pale villas on the far shore under a soft sky.
Painted in 1890 in Beaulieu, on the French Riviera, the canvas sets its relaxed, shaded foreground against the bright, sunlit bay beyond, the two hats the strongest notes of colour in the group. The print keeps that contrast between cool shade and open blue water clear, so the view through the pines still reads as looking out from rest into sunlight.



