Joseph-Théodore Coosemans (1828–1904)
Étang de Robiano-Tervuren (Pond at the Castle of Robiano-Tervuren), 1863

Oil on canvas
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Gift of Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust

Coosemans

Jeffery Howe
Professor Emeritus, Art History

Jeffery Howe

After a career as the town secretary in Tervuren, Coosemans came late to painting. He received his first lessons from Théodore Fourmois. This twilight scene is one of Coosemans’s earliest works, and represents an already accomplished example of tonal subtleties. As the shadows fall, a man sits on the edge of a pond fishing, accompanied by a woman. The air is calm, and the trees are mirrored in the glassy surface of the pond. At left, a sheep and a lamb add to the domestic harmony.

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