A mid-century oil in which P. Rodwin reinterprets Marie-Denise Villers's 1801 masterpiece "Young Woman Drawing," now in the Metropolitan Museum. A blonde sitter in a violet Empire gown turns from her sketchpad to meet your eye, daylight spilling through a riverside window. Rodwin simplifies the architecture into planes of teal and umber, letting the lilac folds and reflective water lead. Framed, and a quietly sophisticated nod to a museum piece.
