Gezicht op een meer met daarin sculpturen van onder andere Neptunus before 1909

This photograph, taken by Coppin-Goisse, is a dreamy sort of affair. It looks like something from a fairytale, maybe from a book you’d find in your attic. I imagine Coppin-Goisse setting up their camera, maybe a bit nervous, but excited to capture this scene. I wonder if they were thinking about the stories hidden in those sculptures, like Neptune rising from the water, or the secrets whispered by the old trees. The tones are muted, almost like a memory, and the light is soft, giving everything a gentle, hazy feel. The sculptures in the lake are like characters in a play, frozen in time, and the lake itself becomes a stage. I see echoes of Romanticism, of painters like Caspar David Friedrich, who also found drama and emotion in landscapes. You get the sense that artists like Coppin-Goisse are in conversation, each adding their own voice to the ongoing story of how we see and feel the world. Painting, photography – it’s all connected, a constant exchange of ideas and inspirations.