This richly atmospheric scene by James Tissot captures the elegance and quiet drama of Victorian leisure. Three finely dressed figures—two women and a man—prepare to embark on a boat from the grassy riverbank as autumnal trees cast golden reflections onto the calm surface of the Thames. Tissot’s precise realism and impeccable attention to fashion and setting lend a cinematic quality to this moment of transition. The piece evokes nostalgia and the fleeting beauty of both nature and time, all rendered in Tissot’s signature narrative style.