Wow. Had to reblog this after checking out the tags for other posts about this painting. Someone lightened this a lot in Photoshop (or the equivalent). It really changes the mood. Compare this unaltered shot of the original at the Getty:
Hi. I'm John Callender, a 51-year-old fan of my wife and children, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the Weepies, Sigur Rós, David Quammen, musicals, period drama, Tolkien, boats, birds, cultural cognition, the night sky, the Perl programming language, and Rhopalomyia californica, a gall midge that associates with coyote brush.
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The avatar image above is one I've been using since the 1990s. These days I look more like the image below: Older. Larger. Fuzzier.