Year 1865 (1865) Artist Lars Hertervig | Medium oil on canvas Created 1865 | |
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Dimensions 64 cm × 74.5 cm (25 in × 29.3 in) Location Stavanger kunstmuseum, Stavanger Similar Winter at the Sognefjord, Christening in Tanum Church, Inger on the Beach, Winter Night in the Mountains, Madonna | ||
Old Pine Trees (Norwegian:Gamle furutrær) is a painting by Lars Hertervig from 1865.
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Lars Hertervig painted Old Pine Trees at the age of 35 in Stavanger. He then worked in a carpentry and paint shop in the town, after studying the art of painting a few years at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf for Hans Gude. He had also visited England and the Mediterranean countries.
Description
The painting shows two old pines in a forest early, sunny day. Between the dark earth and the bright sky. In the valleys is a blue-gray morning, and in the background the snow-capped mountains.
Provenance
Petra Aanensen (1858-?), Single daughter of master painter Peder Aanensen (1821-?), In 1940, his artistic estate left the family for the Stavanger Kunstforening. This included the painting, which has been in family ownership from 1865. Then the painting came with the rest of the art in 1992, when the permanent collection became part of the Rogaland Art Museum in Stavanger, today called the Stavanger kunstmuseum.