Wild flowers at the edge of the wood. In the background a landscape with a church. Signed with monogram and dated 1868. Oil on canvas. 45×37 cm.

Wild flowers at the edge of the wood. In the background a landscape with a church. Signed with monogram and dated 1868. Oil on canvas. 45×37 cm. The monogram AT is for Anthonore Tscherning. The painting is executed before the artist married dr. phil. Richard Christensen (1843–1876) in 1871. Provenance: Given as a gift to the politician Chr. Carl Alberti (1814–1890) and his wife Albertine Sophie Frederikke Westergaard (1814–1901). Thence by descent in the family. The flower artist Anthonie Eleonore (Anthonore) Tscherning was taught by her mother Eleonore Tscherning (1817–1890) and later by Emma Thomsen (1820–1897) and O.D. Ottesen (1816–1892), all of whom were flower artists. After her marriage to the philologist Richard Christensen (1843–1876) in 1871, she is known as Anthonore Christensen. She went on several study tours to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France (Paris) and Greece, and she, herself, later taught members of the Danish and Greek royal family the art of painting. Anthonore Christensen's motifs of forest beds and wild flowers growing in a field are often characterized by a natural, less artificial expression than the opulent bouquets and the decorative cut flowers displayes on stone sills, we see in works by earlier flower painters.