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An ornamental gateway opening onto formal grounds — the kind of space that implies an institution behind it, a school or estate or civic garden rather than a private house. Czimber paints the ironwork and stonework with obvious satisfaction; he liked architectural details, and the gate here is rendered as carefully as the figures in his crowd scenes. What's beyond it is deliberately left partially open: an invitation, a threshold, whatever the viewer needs it to be.