Very Charming Antique Landscape Painting with Horse in Snow vintage wooden nutcracker The wood shows some spotting

The wood shows some spotting but no cracking and has a nice warm patina

with a bit of dark spotting here and some rippling to the linen

with one very tiny barely there sailing ship in the far distance at right in addition to the one nearer afield at left

Much aged but I think all the better for it

Very Charming Antique Landscape Painting with Horse in Snow vintage wooden nutcracker The wood shows some spottingI really love this painting, which feels very very much like winter in my neck of the woodswhere I am always feeling for the horses (and cows, too) outside in the snow! Part of what I love here is that its maker painted individual falling snowflakes, which, if you look closely, give this brown horse white spots! The whole thing is really wonderfully done, with a subtle wintery palette given just the right pop with green pines and bright blue sky, and