Stunning Portrait of Beauty & Color.

I fell upon this stunning portrait while unproductively browsing, stopping me in my tracks like the proverbial brick wall.

What an impressive use of color, ethereal, translucent, and ultimately beautiful.

Unfortunately, however, searched for the artist and title of the portrait in vain...it remains a mystery.

The model is posing on the artist's instructions; peering down, dangling "something" on her fingers. Flowers surround her as the afternoon sun enters through her thin dress, the door- window, leading to the back garden, revealing an extraordinarily beautiful young woman. The entire scene projects a calmness, quietness and a moment in time never to be repeated.

Over the last year, I have come to love this "style" of work: a balanced rendering of Realism and Impressionism.

In the end, though, it's the artist's use of color that makes this style so entrancing.

Lovely.