Road in the Village of Baldersbrønde (Winter Day)
1912 · Oil on canvas · The National Gallery, London
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- L. A. Ring (1854–1933)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- The National Gallery, London
- Movement
- Realism
A village road, slushy and rutted with sledge tracks, curves away under a pale grey sky. On the left stand a white farmhouse with a snow-laden thatched roof and a yellow house behind it, and on the right a clipped brown hedge runs beside a line of thin, leafless trees. The whole scene is still, with no figures, and the light is the flat silver of a short winter day. Laurits Andersen Ring painted it in 1912 in Baldersbrønde, the village on Zealand where his family had moved in 1902. He spent his career painting the ordinary country life of Denmark with plain, careful realism. He signed it at the lower right. The National Gallery in London bought it in 2015, the first painting by Ring to enter a public collection in the United Kingdom.
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
A grey-silver winter road with a white thatched farmhouse, a brown hedge and thin bare trees. Suited to a hallway, landing or kitchen alongside Friedrich's Winter Landscape, in a dark wood frame to warm the grey.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- kitchen, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed. See it to scale on your wall →
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).
- Restored in-house from the original painting, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
