Interieur van een salon van het schip 'Grotius' c. 1906

This is a pencil drawing of the salon on the ship 'Grotius' by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. Look at how the lines intersect and overlap. The drawing feels almost architectural, with the bare bones of a structure laid out before us. You can imagine Cachet, squinting in the light of the salon, quickly sketching the scene before him. How the linear structure creates a space of inquiry for both the artist and the viewer. There's a tenderness here too, in the way the lines waver and shift, suggesting that even in a precise rendering, there’s room for feeling and expression. The quickness of it suggests that Cachet made a study, and perhaps it informs a later painting, or another study. This work feels like a thought in process, and the beauty is that it welcomes us into that thought as well.