Picture: Hollande

These cute, red-and-green houses,
These gardens, rose and yellow, and scarlet,
These dark-skinned children, like small dwarfs,
Reflected in quietly frozen channels, —

These old shops, where the shelves lined with
Cans next to the pot-bellied, long a smoky,
The noise of taverns, drowning, depressed,
These tall women in white caps, —

It's all so familiar, and it seems in a fairy tale I
And ready for the obsession to exclaim I: vade!
I met Rembrandta Saskia?
I'm your age is returned, Adriaen van Ostade?

(V. Bryusov, "Holland")

The painting, based on the works of European artists, was created with pastel pencils according to a sketch in colored ink on linen embossed paper with a fabric texture.