Before a Warm Fireplace with a Crackling Fire and Mantelpiece

Before a warm fireplace with a crackling fire and mantelpiece, a single grandfather clock scale analog clock, its visible swinging pendulum and Roman numerals catching selective, neutral-temperature frontal light within a low-key dark atmosphere, stands in an asymmetrically balanced, informal composition, the entire scene captured in a full shot and rendered through the fragmented lens of monochromatic or limited palette early cubism.