Color etching and aquatint, circa 1900. 598x475 mm; 23 1/2x18 3/4 inches, wide margins. Signed and inscribed "No. 176" in black crayon, lower margin. Published by Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, with the blind stamp (Lugt 2022, lower left recto). A very good impression.
Thaulow (1847-1906) was an Impressionist painter born in Oslo, Norway. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, and afterward traveled to Paris in 1875, where he became acquainted with the Impressionists, particularly Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet, and was deeply influenced by their work. Thaulow's paintings often represent the fjords, rivers, and forests of Norway and northern Europe in muted tones and soft brushstrokes, with a heavy emphasis on light and atmosphere familiar to the Impressionists. Thaulow was a founding member of the Berliner Secession, and joined the Munich Secession and the Vienna Secession as well. He is widely credited for his significant influence on the subsequent generation of Scandinavian artists.
