Winter Evening in a Forest
Original title
Vilhelm Kyhn
- Institution
- SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ↗
- Accession
- KMS719
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1903. SMK marks this image as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
- Description
- A snowy road winds into a forest of great bare oaks at dusk. The low sun leaves a band of orange and gold behind the trees, a small horse-drawn sledge travels along the road in the middle distance, and the snow in the foreground is blue with evening.
- Image
- 1600 × 1066
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009047
coldlibrary.com/g/009047 - Credit line
- Vilhelm Kyhn, Winter Evening in a Forest, 1853. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), PDM-1.0. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009047
Kyhn was a Danish Golden Age landscape painter who insisted on painting Denmark’s own countryside rather than Italy. This is a large canvas, nearly two metres wide, of an ordinary Danish forest on an ordinary winter evening, given the scale of a history painting. The warmth at the horizon and the cold in the foreground hold each other in balance.
