Mother & Daughter Indoors — Henri Lebasque | Zolota Ptakha

Lebasque's interiors return again and again to the same handful of people — his family, the rooms of their own house — and this quiet domestic scene fits squarely inside that family register. The painter was less interested in event than in atmosphere: a mother attending to her child, a window admitting daylight, the small ceremony of being at home together. As a postcard it carries that hush of an ordinary afternoon, and sits easily among other figure studies in an art postcard collection.