Gustav Vermehren, Landscape With Older Couple

Gustav Vermehren, Landscape With Older CoupleThis early 20th century oil painting by Danish artist Gustav Vermehren (1863 1931) depicts an older couple conversing on a countryside track. Amid an ever advancing web of emerging technologies, grimy industry, and societal challenges, Gustav Vermehren painted the world he wanted. Where rural communities flourished in self sustained equilibrium, where modest families upheld traditional values, and where everyday conversations were given ample time to

The painting is signed and dated in the lower left

Irène Bataille was predominantly known for landscapes

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 15” x 17” / 38cm x 43cmYear of creation: 1849Provenance: Private collection

Two inches closer and it’ll be in for a fright

The buildings feel lost in time and we love the way the artist has given the walls texture by roughing them up a little

which is emphasised further by the unusual composition and the artist’s deliberately uneven lines

and his ‘twelve labours’

Did she paint this as a commentary on temperance

renderings are a result of his passion for British flora and his painstaking technique

akin to a beauteous figure from Grecian mythology

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at times taking vast canvases outdoors to study from life