For this day of waiting and preparation on the Eve of Easter, I found this art postcard by a German painter.

Ludwig Blume-Siebert was born in 1853 and began his training as a painter at an Art School in Nuremberg.

He also studied and worked in Munich, but I have not found a comprehensive biography.

His works of precise, mannered, realism are collected in several German museums; one can find sales reports of canvases by Blume-Siebert sold at Christies and other auction houses in this century.

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Ludwig-Blume-Siebert/B4C7CB9C4F0E942D

Blume-Siebert died in 1929, but his works were reproduced on postcards by the art publishing company, Erpaco Kuntsverlag of Hamburg.

This work, “Er Kommt” (he comes, he is coming) shows a woman at at sunny window watching and waiting.

The perspective is striking – the viewer is looking past the ancient woodwork of an interior room toward the lighted window.

The posture of the female figure shows the pitch of expectation and uncertainty as she waits the arrival of the one who is coming – coming as either guest, family member, or head of the household.

These carefully-crafted, hyper-realistic works fell out of critical favor in the Modernist revolutions of the 20th century, but they have endured, and still move us.