1902
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Study of a forest glade is a 1902 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour is a quiet sketch of a forest glade by Beatrix Potter. It’s a landscape done in two styles at once: Impressionism for its light, and Realism for its sharp details. Potter often drew outdoors while traveling with her parents. She left this one unfinished, likely made in the Lake District before she settled there. Check out more of her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor study depicts a sunlit clearing in a dense forest, rendered in Potter’s characteristic fine detail and muted natural tones. The unfinished sketch likely dates from one of her sketching trips to the Lake District or other parts of Britain before her marriage in 1913. Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, it is one of numerous landscape works in her broader oeuvre.
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Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.
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