The Tree and the River III (The Seine at Bois-le-Roi)

Like Ernst Josephson, Carl Fredrik Hill travelled to France with a burning ambition to make his mark as an artist. His encounter with the French countryside in the 1870s resulted in an intense and patient endeavour to capture the specific character of the landscape. He often reworked the same subject in several different versions. A number of variants exist of The Tree and the River, from 1877, th…