Marguerite De Lacombe, Plaine De Quevilly, Near Rouen, France

Marguerite De Lacombe, Plaine De Quevilly, Near Rouen, FranceThis late 19th century landscape by Marguerite de Lacombe (ne Gamelin, 18761960) offers a tender view of rural life near Rouen. Painted with a quiet sensitivity characteristic of her early career, the scene presents a trio of women gathering hay along a gentle, winding path, with a male fieldworker faintly visible in the distance. The land is full, warm, and softly expressive a pastoral moment observed with both accuracy and kindness. Two women occupy

Edvard Petersen worked in a style influenced by one of the masters of romantic Danish landscape painting

This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Carlo Hornung-Jensen (1862-1960) depicts a wintery view in Vigerslev

But despite cheating death numerous times in battle

which capture a reflection

we see a likeness encapsulated and immortalised by a well-trained hand over 140 years ago

sketchy style with energetic short marks and brisk handling

His students included Claudia Bret-Charbonnier

Following the Austrian Revolution in 1848

which is in the collection at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

But aside from his various roles

Perched on the edge of a chair within a plush Victorian room

filling sketchbooks with careful studies of transient light effects