Lopende vrouw in een rok en een voet 1874 - 1945

Here we have Carel Adolph Lion Cachet’s drawing of a running woman, sketched on paper with pencil. It feels like Cachet was really thinking through his hand here, letting the pencil dart across the page to capture this fleeting figure. You can almost feel the energy of the movement, right? The beautiful thing about drawings like this is the way they let you see the artist’s thought process. Look at the skirt, for example. The quick, vertical lines create a sense of volume and movement, but they also leave space for your imagination to fill in the details. And that one assertive foot, planted firmly on the ground, anchors the whole composition. The rest is kind of smudgy and ethereal, a memory of motion. Cachet reminds me of other artists who use drawing to explore form and movement, like Degas with his dancers. But where Degas is all about capturing the elegance of the ballet, Cachet feels more raw, more immediate. It’s like he’s saying, “Here’s a moment, a feeling, a glimpse of life in motion.”