Detail of Westminster Moon by Hank Connor on Flickr. Click for full image (up to 2,554 x 1,893).

Retired professor Hank Connor considers himself an incurable romantic, and is fascinated with chiaroscuro, the strong contrasts between light and dark in works of art. The image shown above is a good example of his work. He describes it in his own words as “An image captured on a cold spring morning in London just after my wife Jerre and I had crossed the Thames on the Westminster Bridge. Of course a few things have been added, including an enchanting Bougeureau girl.”

The girl on the moon is in fact the little peasant girl in Bouguereau’s 1865 work Rest in Harvest. The same girl also features in an array of digital images on Flickr, which you can view here.

Below you can compare the original Bouguereau painting and the remastered version by Hank Connor. Click the first to visit the gallery where you will find several contemporary versions of Bouguereau’s work. Click the second to view Westminster Moon on Flickr.