Playing Children, Enghave Square  1908

by Peter Hansen

Hand in hand, a chain of little girls surge ahead, trying to catch their friends. The dynamic movement is accentuated by abrupt cropping and flickering reflections in the girl’s faces and the new-leaved trees. [br] [b]The painting's motif[/b] The scene is from Copenhagen, specifically Enghave Plads on Vesterbro. From 1905 onwards, Peter Hansen kept his winter dwelling o...
Size: 
109.5 x 151.5 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Denmark