Literature · Reflection
JANE AUSTEN ~ CONTEMPLATION
31 January 2012
“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”
Jane Austen
painting is from Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant (1845-1902)
Contemplation
Oil on canvas
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