White Frost in Sunshine
Original title
Gustaf Fjæstad
- Institution
- SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ↗
- Accession
- KMS1939
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1948. SMK marks this image as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
- Description
- Two slender birches, every twig thick with white hoarfrost, lean over a snowy bank; behind them pale hills and a frozen valley disappear into bright, misty winter light.
- Image
- 1600 × 1268
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009048
coldlibrary.com/g/009048 - Credit line
- Gustaf Fjæstad, White Frost in Sunshine, 1903. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), PDM-1.0. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009048
Fjæstad was a Swedish painter so devoted to snow and frost that he became known as a master of hoarfrost, working with a circle of artists at Rackstad in Värmland. He painted frost not as a white blur but as a texture you can almost touch. The light is the brief, low sun of a northern winter day.
