A Morning’s Harmony (1902)
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Alphonse Osbert painted A Morning's Harmony in 1902, during the period he was most closely aligned with the Symbolists and the Rosicrucian circle around Joséphin Péladan. Two trees stand at the water's edge on the right, silhouetted against a pale gold haze that swallows the mountains and lake into a single, barely differentiated surface. Osbert adopted a Pointillist technique from Seurat and Signac in the late 1880s, and you can see it in the fine, even texture across the entire canvas. The painting is almost monochromatic — golds, tans, and muted lavender, with the water and sky nearly indistinguishable from each other.