The Broken Pitcher

An adolescent girl sits on a stone ledge beside a coastal landscape, looking directly at the viewer with a pensive, slightly flushed expression. She wears a white blouse with rolled sleeves, a plaid orange shawl, and a full dark blue skirt, her hands clasped in her lap and her bare feet resting on the stone. A green pitcher sits at her side, and Bouguereau’s polished brushwork, smooth modeling of the flesh, and subdued, natural colors create a serene, highly finished example of Academic Realism set against the seascape behind her.