Description
Two young women in matching pearl-grey dresses sit opposite one another in a railway carriage. One reads while the other sleeps; their hats and baskets repeat across the foreground. Through the central window, a bright stretch of the French coast separates their inward-looking poses.
This hand-painted oil-on-canvas reproduction recreates The Travelling Companions by Augustus Leopold Egg. This reproduction follows the complete 1862 composition held in Birmingham, rather than the separate preparatory study of a sleeping head. Its broad folds of silk and near-symmetrical arrangement give the moving carriage an unusual calm.
Made to order in oil on canvas. Choose from the available reproduction sizes and framing options. The complete composition is retained, with attention to the relationships between the figures, colour and light.




