Fishermen’s Harbor

At Concarneau, along the Breton coast. Another example of Payne’s happy use of French fishing boats in the making of a thoroughly satisfactory picture—a picture whose luscious color harmonies keep time, as it were, with the rhythms of its lines. Clear sunlight transfigures and glorifies the green and white of the boats, the green of the harbor ripples, and the yellow sails of the boats. The parallel lines of the composition give dignity as well as grace to the picture.