The fourth plate in the series settles into a deep, nocturnal quiet — a plein‑air landscape rendered in three elemental bands. The lower band is a dark, ridged terrain, grounded and weighty, like earth cooling after sundown. Above it rises a rough, reddish middle band, a compressed horizon line that feels like the last trace of daylight slipping behind a distant ridge.
The upper band is the sky at minuit: smooth, slate‑dark, and calm, holding the stillness of midnight without tipping into pure black. It’s the kind of sky where shapes dissolve, colors mute, and the world becomes silhouette. The contrast between the quiet sky and the textured land below gives the piece its nocturnal gravity — a landscape distilled into three strokes of night.