Landscape with a stream.

Streams threading through Danish farmland and woodland offered painters subjects of quiet, intimate character—quite different from the broad river landscapes and fjord panoramas that also attracted Agersnap's attention. A landscape with a stream centers on this smaller waterway, likely capturing a tributary of one of Jutland's river systems, with the stream's course providing both spatial depth and a reflective surface. The modesty of the subject—a stream rather than a river or lake—is entirely characteristic of the Post-Impressionist naturalist landscape tradition's embrace of the unspectacular everyday countryside as worthy artistic subject matter.

The stream functions as the composition's organizing element, its course providing directional movement and a reflective surface that lightens the lower portion of the painting. Agersnap would handle the stream's edges—where water meets bank vegetation—with particular attention to the interplay of wet and dry surfaces.