Two Evening Landscapes, pastel on blue paper

Two framed pastel scenes stacked on blue paper. The upper view shows a moonlit water expanse with faint trees and small figures on a dark shore; the lower shows a red sun setting over a calm sea with pale pink clouds and distant posts.

Artist

Leon Dabo

Date

ca. 1890

Medium

Pastel on dark blue paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1443 × 2402 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum