La Fenêtre (The Window) — Pierre Bonnard Postcard

La fenêtre opens onto a red-roofed town and distant hills through green shutters, but the real subject sits below the sill: a table holding a book lettered with a name, a pen, an inkwell, and a sheet of paper waiting to be written on. Bonnard folds a landscape and a letter into the same frame, pen and inkwell waiting exactly where they were set down, the outside world arriving at the point where correspondence begins. It is a fitting painting for a postcard collection, one that already contains the gesture of writing inside it. A natural pick from the Pierre Bonnard collection for anyone sending an actual letter along with the card.