Description
Two young men sit together in a garden of pink roses, one in a light tan suit with a loosely tied cravat, the other beside him in a dark navy jacket with a small flower pinned to the lapel, a rolled paper held in his hand. The tan-suited figure rests an arm along the back of the bench behind his companion, the pair framed by dense green foliage.
Painted in 1882, the double portrait (65 by 81 cm) sets the two young men’s contrasting suits, pale tan against deep navy, as the picture’s clearest structural device. The print keeps that colour contrast crisp, so the two figures stay distinct even though they sit shoulder to shoulder against the same green garden.



