For Fritz Syberg, the landscape around Svanninge was far more than just a place to set up his easel. The area offered gentle rolling hills, hedgerows, open fields, and undulating terrain, much of which is today hidden beneath dense woodland. For Syberg, Svanninge was also steeped in personal memories – a region that reached back to his childhood and youth, and which later took on special significance when he and Anna Syberg (1870–1914) settled there. Together, they not only created a home and a setting for family life, but also art of lasting value. Svanninge remained an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a natural starting point for Syberg’s landscapes and figure paintings.

Exhibited: Presumably Charlottenborg, “Fritz Syberg Retrospektiv Udstilling”, 1928 no. 51, here owned by fishmonger of the court H.K. Lou.