This breathtaking landscape painting by Dutch artist Eliza Agnetus Emilius Nijhoff (1826-1903) depicts an extensive view in the Black Forest.

It’s exquisitely rendered and created by an artist with a deep connection to the natural world.

In the foreground, a family works by a ramshackle farmhouse while several cows wander along a track. A lone goat looks curiously towards a hill. Beyond them, an abundance of majestic pines - a dense wall of light blue under a picture-perfect sky.

This masterful composition gives you room to breathe. You could walk towards the stream, along the opening by the copse on the left, rest endlessly to the sound of very little.

The painting is signed in the lower right and housed within a handsome swept frame with pierced corners and centres.

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 46” x 34” / 118cm x 87cm
Year of creation: c. 1870
Condition: Overall very presentable. Minor craquelure. Canvas relined. Frame with some age-related wear.
Artist’s auction highlight: £5,657 achieved for an oil painting in 2005.