Man with three girls on a bench in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam 1904

This is a watercolour made by Isaac Israels, depicting a man with three girls on a bench in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam. Look at the way Israels has dashed the watercolour onto the paper, leaving traces of blues, greens and greys. I can imagine him capturing the light, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition, trying to capture the perfect moment with these figures in the park, and the light of the day. It feels as though he’s tried to just capture a moment in time. I can imagine Israels was thinking about how to portray this very relaxed moment. I think about how the texture, colour, and surface shape our experience of the painting and contribute to the overall feeling of the work. I think he’s really captured it well. It reminds me of other painters like Manet, who painted similar scenes of everyday life. It's like they are having a conversation across time, inspiring each other’s creativity. It's a beautiful expression of an everyday scene, offering multiple interpretations. What do you see?