Otto Press, Near Berneichen In The Neumark Winter wearing a lace collar

wearing a lace collar

Dagron was born in Fontainebleau

The portrait is housed within an appropriate frame from the late-19th-century

425 achieved for ‘The Snake Charmer’ at Christie’s in 2004

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 40” x 20” / 102cm x 74cmYear of creation: c

Otto Press, Near Berneichen In The Neumark Winter wearing a lace collarThis mid 19th century oil painting by German artist Otto Press (1838 1889) depicts a broad river moving slowly through a summer landscape under a rising moon, its pale light breaking softly through drifting cloud and laying a silver path across the water. Trees mass quietly along the banks, their forms half absorbed by shadow, while a modest house sits back from the rivers edge, partially concealed by foliage. Painted in 1865, the work belongs to the