Vernet is considered the leading French painter of
landscapes, especially of tempests and moonlit scenes. In this painting’s rich
warm colors the evening’s breezy atmosphere seems to almost waft out of the
page. Several figures in the foreground spend the lazy evening at the port.
Fisherman clean a catch on the pier, a few passersby chat off to the side, and
a man rests and smokes a pipe.
The
Evening Star
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
Lo! in the painted oriel of the West,
Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,
Like a fair lady at her casement, shines
The evening star, the star of love and rest!
Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,
Like a fair lady at her casement, shines
The evening star, the star of love and rest!
And then anon she doth herself divest
Of all her radiant garments, and reclines
Behind the sombre screen of yonder pines,
With slumber and soft dreams of love oppressed.
Of all her radiant garments, and reclines
Behind the sombre screen of yonder pines,
With slumber and soft dreams of love oppressed.
