Rest

Rest depicts a seated woman with two children in a sun-dappled woodland. The figures form a gentle triangle within a lush, natural setting, with a distant domed building on the horizon that grounds the scene. Bouguereau uses smooth, polished brushwork and a restrained palette of whites, greens, browns, and a deep red in the skirt, delivering naturalistic skin tones and finely rendered fabrics in an academic Realist style.