Les Toits Dutch painting A view of a forest

A view of a forest and lake with a hyper-realistic representation of light

and what appear to be red beets in a pottery bowl

Date: 19th-century

Date: 1865 - 1915

3" on the lower horizontal edge and traces due to time which make all its charm

Les Toits Dutch painting A view of a forestA colorful and surprising watercolor and gouache on paper, protected under glass in an antique frame, depicting rooftops and faades in an old town setting. The pointed roofs (les toits) seem to cascade and overlap at unlikely angles, creating a convergence of shingles that gives the impression the houses are built atop one another. The composition focuses on the essentials: geometry, light, and color. Likely painted in the early 1900s, the piece