Superb staging of a couple of fishermen in the small Arcachon port of La Teste-de-Buch, where the artist has clearly taken pleasure in painting a whole composition of characters and seaside landscapes where the perspective is linked.

Two large triangular travelling shots: first, in the foreground, from left to right, the fishermen’s couple, the man and the woman with their baby, then, below them, the fishermen’s wives bending over their nets; finally, in the background, from right to left, fleeing towards a setting sun placed on the horizon at the top of the middle of the canvas, a series of wooden fishermen’s houses and fishing smacks so characteristic of the shores of the Arcachon basin.

The women are wearing the typical red shorts and quichenotte. While the man, seated in front, bare-chested, is concentrated, with his head down, on the mending of his nets, the woman, with her gaze far away, her child clutched to her chest in a white cloth, her legs stretched out and her body leaning against a table, brings calm and serenity to the scene.

A vision of a marine Eden, which Juana’s gaze invites us to discover, where bodies take on the colour of sun-drenched water in the evening.

The models were Pierre-Camille Lacaze, the artist’s little cousin, and Juana, known to the artist through her Spanish friends Maria-Eugenia and Javier Huder Ruiz de Alda from Pamplona.