"Une Premiere was the earliest of his plates in which the etcher depicted the nude female form disporting in sea or river, and here, in this tenderly charming picture of the mother guiding protectively her timid child through the wavelets out into the shallows, we see their bodies, softly enveloped by the shimmering atmosphere, silhouetted , as it were, against the glistening mass of water between them and the hori..." http://surfacefragments.blogspot.nl/2012/10/the-etchings-of-anders-zorn.html