19th-Century Danish School, Forest Landscape With Stream

19th-Century Danish School, Forest Landscape With StreamThis exquisite 19th century Danish landscape painting depicts a forest view with towering birch trees. Its majestically rendered and captures nature at its finest. In the foreground, the stones seem to flicker, touched by the light as reflections in umber emerge from the stream. The eye wanders upwards, drawn by the mist, the early morning haze hovering above foliage. The birch trees creak, contorting across the void. Twisted by time in a little known

Cor De Boer (1878-1961) has inscribed ‘Hommage à Corot’

It’s interesting that Byard has chosen to include some deficiencies in the fruit - for example

Overall size 20½” x 23½” / 52cm x 60cm

It’s easy to imagine stepping through them

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 21” x 28½” / 54cm x 72cmYear of creation: c

It’s easy to imagine a son standing with his right hand resting on his mother’s arm

1885 Provenance

While the light feels hazy and seems to blur the distant trees in the background

Year of creation: 1893

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 21” x 24½” / 53cm x 62cmYear of creation: c

Canvas a little undulant

One minor loss