Staldeur met roze emmer (Stable Door with a Pink Bucket)

A pair of old plank doors under a whitewashed brick arch, the wood bleached and patched, a small barred peephole cut into one leaf, a single pink bucket resting on the straw-strewn ground. The whole pleasure is the rendering of weathered timber, every split, nail and water-stain caught exactly, with the lone bucket as a quiet still-life note at its foot. A closed door painted with the care of a portrait.