Deur met gordijnen c. 1895 - 1910

This print of a door with curtains by Léon Laroche is a peek into another world through color and line. The hues are so soft, like a memory fading into the page. The way the blues melt into the creams, it's like watching watercolor bleed on damp paper, a happy accident turned into deliberate design. The textures in this print are implied, right? You can almost feel the velvet of the curtains and the cool marble of the floor. The artist teases us with tiny details—the tassels, the gilded edges—inviting our eyes to dance across the surface and our fingers to tingle. Look at the way the fabric gathers at the top, each fold and curve given its own breath, it's not just decorative, it's alive. Laroche’s work is a little like Fragonard, all playful and pretty, but with a dash of something else, a hint of the surreal maybe. It's a reminder that art is always in conversation, borrowing and riffing, a remix of ideas that never gets old.