This week’s #WorkoftheWeek is Canal avec moulin (Canal with Mill), painted by Théodore T’Scharner (1826–1906) in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It is currently featured in McMullen Museum's current exhibition, Belgian Landscapes. Visit the McMullen to see it in person. T’Scharner was a Swiss artist who worked in Paris and loved painting places outside the city. He focused on the quiet edges of towns and small villages, showing paths, gardens, bridges, and water where people lived and worked. In this scene, a calm canal runs between houses, with a mill and bridge drawing your eye across the picture. The still water acts like a mirror, showing the gray-blue sky and soft clouds, and shows the bridge in the reflection. Smoke, rooftops, and slender trees hint at the rhythm of local life without crowding the view. The light is calm and cool, suggesting late afternoon after a day of work, and it settles on the buildings and water with a steady glow. T’Scharner keeps the mood pea...