Very Charming Antique Landscape Painting with Horse in Snow vintage wooden nutcracker 1881 copyright

1881 copyright

Much aged but I think all the better for it

otherwise very good condition

with a bit of dark spotting here and some rippling to the linen

A couple of pages show staining as pictured but overall pretty good condition and the construction type paper on which they were drawn is not especially brittle

Very Charming Antique Landscape Painting with Horse in Snow vintage wooden nutcracker 1881 copyrightI really love this painting, which feels very very much like winter in my neck of the woodswhere I am always feeling for the horses (and cows, too) outside in the snow! Part of what I love here is that its maker painted individual falling snowflakes, which, if you look closely, give this brown horse white spots! The whole thing is really wonderfully done, with a subtle wintery palette given just the right pop with green pines and bright blue sky, and