Corot [antikvár]

The Coliseum Seen from the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine Hill, 1826 Canvas. Louvre Museum, Paris THE ARBITER T, wo people, their heads in shadow and slightly lowered, face each other, seven or eight paces apart and separated by a small trough. The man watching them from behind his easel some twenty yards away, busily wielding his brushes, did not attempt to determine whether or not they were looking at eacli other. Such uncertainty suited rather than troubled him, and he enjoyed similar uncertainty in the events of his life and also in the emotions they aroused in him. For instance, a few months earlier a girl called Anna had got married, but he never spoke about his suffering, leaving his future biographers to conjecture about it. For himself he preferred to leave the matter vague, like the relationship — if there was one — between this man in shirtsleeves sitting on a stump — perhaps a broken column, perhaps a tree-trunk — and the woman standing with her body slightly arched, leaning against a pile of quarried stone.