3-050-971 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Breakfast I. The Artist's Mother and Brother, 1882. Additional Info: A gentle morning mood infuses the room. In the foreground, a woman and a boy - probably mother and son - are sitting down to the first meal of the day. In the background we look into an adjacent room where daylight is streaming in through a window. As in several other of his paintings, Gustav Wentzel was preoccupied here in depicting the effects of lighting. The daylight adds brightness to several elements in the room, for example the woman’s wedding ring and parts of the door frame. The contrast between the warm, indoor light and the somewhat cooler, bluish light from the window adds a distinctive atmosphere to the room.