Edvard Petersen, Evening Landscape With Cattle

Edvard Petersen, Evening Landscape With CattleThis late 19th century oil on canvas by Danish artist Edvard Petersen (1841 1911) depicts a backlit wooded view with wandering cattle. As the gentle glow of a setting sun slips beyond our view, limber trees stretch skywards like old kindred spirits. Reaching towards the heavens with an ethereal undertone. Connecting nature to the great beyond and man with nature itself. Petersen describes this via a portrait composition, which emphasises the epic

It was probably painted outside with the sea view stretching out in front of him

As a young lad

It’s a fine piece

and finally the cat

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 23½” x 19½” / 60cm x 50cmYear of creation: 1933Provenance: BelgiumCondition: Good condition overall

Craquelure throughout but the paint layer seems stable

As an educated woman her role is ever-evolving - on one hand

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 29” x 31½” / 73cm x 80cmYear of creation: 1911Provenance: DenmarkCondition: Overall very presentable

Four small buildings are silhouetted along the beach

painting the composer Karl Kleiber

21½” x 28½” / 55cm x 72cm Year of creation

These were quite prescriptive and mourning began with a period of black - no jewellery