Tree Trunks, Arresødal
1904 · Oil on canvas · Statens Museum for Kunst
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916)
- Year
- 1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 45.5 × 68.5 cm
- Collection
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen
- Movement
- Symbolism
Dark, slender tree trunks stand on a low grassy slope against a pale grey sky, their brown foliage soft and blurred, as if seen through mist or failing light. There are no people, paths or buildings, only the trunks spaced across the canvas and a ground of dry brown grass. Hammershøi painted these trees at Arresødal near Frederiksværk in North Zealand in 1904. The picture once belonged to the collector Alfred Bramsen; when it was sold at auction in 1998 to an English buyer, an export ban kept it in Denmark and it was bought for the National Gallery of Denmark.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Browns and soft greys with dark upright trunks suit a living room, study or a bedroom furnished in linen and wood. Pair it with Friedrich's The Abbey in the Oakwood and hang this one at 24×16 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1904)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
