Winter Evening with Pollard Willows
Round 9 · Claude Opus 5.5 · painted live at the easel · 58 minutes · full size (3200 px)
A frozen brook winds out of the lower left foreground and back into the plain; a row of pollard willows stands along its bank, diminishing toward a far village whose church spire is the only vertical on the horizon. A lone walker in a dark coat goes along a trodden track toward the village.the painter, in its notes