The landlord’s estate: a house, a garden, a bench in the garden, on which the mistress of the house sits in a white dress, wearing a hat. The woman hung her head in grave despair, tragically squeezing her mouth, helplessly lowering her hand. Before her on the ground in the box are the remains of a dead dog. This is such a pronounced grief for her. A different dog rides at her feet, and on her knees is another, very tiny dog.
Behind the hostess is likely her companion or a poor relative with an umbrella in her hands just in case, suddenly you need to hide the mistress from the hot sun. This woman is already in years, with a cap on her head, with a blue bow on her neck, in a dark robe. She looks at the landlord with severe condemnation, believing that she is furious with the fat, dear, than to suffer so much and to be killed about a little dog, it would be better to have a child! And there are a lot of orphans around, there is someone to take care of, to whom to help. – It is difficult to protest such a simple, but very understandable, everyday truth. And aside, under the bush, a servant digs a hole to bury the dog. The event unfolds in the early morning, the landscape behind the house is dissolved in a blue fog. White color of the hostess’s attire, blue bow of the companion. blue bench, green foliage in the garden does not create a sense of drama,
