La pluie sur la route
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Two Breton women in black dresses and white coiffes walk down a pale road under black umbrellas. The road is rendered in broad, flat strokes of cream and ochre, with dark diagonal marks indicating rain. To the left, a stand of autumn trees — golden yellow and bright red-orange — rises against a near-black hillside. The landscape beyond rolls in bands of dark green, red, and ochre, with red-leafed trees scattered across the hills. The color is bold and unmodulated, applied in flat areas with strong dark outlines — the full Synthetist vocabulary Sérusier learned from Gauguin at Pont-Aven. Dated 1893, this is from the period when Sérusier was living in Châteauneuf-du-Faou and painting the Breton landscape and its inhabitants at his strongest.