Vrouw bij het raam

This work is part of pointillism or neo-impressionism. The work is part of a series of eight village scenes (Faits du village) that Van de Velde painted in one month in an artists' colony in the Antwerp Kempen. The townscape is bathed in an internal light that is enhanced by yellow, purple and orange dots. The farmer's wife by the window is enveloped by the light. She wears Flemish peasant clothes, and her figure consists of simple surfaces that indicate her pure and simple existence. It forms the transition element between the spiritual world within the room and the actual material outside world.