Two Men Contemplating the Moon

What you see

On a rise to the left, two men in long coats and caps stand with their backs to us, one resting a hand on the other’s shoulder. Facing them, a huge oak leans diagonally and spreads its branches, many of them dead, across the top of the picture. Between the tree and the men glows a crescent moon. A path runs down to the foreground.

It is twilight: the sky shifts from gold to violet gray, and nearly everything else is dark brown and green. The branches are drawn with a fine, precise line, like lace. Watch for the tiny star to the right of the moon, the cut stump at lower left and the distant firs along the right edge.