Literature: Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen, “Brendekildes billedverden-stemming og skæbne”, 2001, pp. 52–56, quotes from the book below.

H.A. Brendekilde produces a section of nature. The motif appears as a closed “forest space”. “Trunks, branches and foliage are cropped at the edge of the image, so that the forest is not reproduced as a larger whole under the sky and clouds... Brendekilde paints a close up of the forest floor, the lower part of the tree trunks and individual branches. These elements stand out as the most important of the picture, together with the individual human figures”. The flowers in the foreground stand distinct, “but as the eye wanders towards the background, the sharpness disappears abruptly, and the landscape takes on a panoramic, distant character”. The young girl in the process of picking anemones stands as a kind of “triangle” that fills the middle field of the picture and absorbs the attention.