Musketeer Scanning the Horizon

Men in seventeenth-century military dress hold a fortified coastal position. In the foreground, a man in a wide-brimmed hat leans against a fascine rampart, gazing out to sea, while behind him, a second man lifts a spyglass to the horizon. In the background, rank-and-file soldiers cluster around the breech of a cannon, eating and drinking.

The caption reads in the original French: Le regard d’Aramis plana longtemps sur la mer.