Two Young Peasant Women

Two young women rest at the edge of a field. One sits with her chin in her hand; the other kneels beside her, leaning on a stick, in a rose-coloured headscarf. Behind them the field runs up to a line of apple trees and a pale sky.

The figures are drawn large and close, with the landscape as backdrop rather than subject. The surface is worked in dense, closely set strokes that give it a woven, shimmering texture.