Figures in a landscape. Blind Kristian and Tine among the dunes. 1880
by Michael Peter Ancher
Here Ancher’s interest in figure painting produces a masterly image of youth and age, of the sighted and the blind, while the fine sense of silent communion in an afternoon hour offers delicate insight into life and human relations in the small fishing hamlet of Skagen.
Read more...- Size:
- 59.8 × 95 cm (23.5 × 37.4 in)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Credit:
- This photographic reproduction is in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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