Winter landscape with trees. (37 x 54 cm).

This winter landscape with trees (37 × 54 cm), documented from around 1900, continues the systematic exploration of the snow-covered Danish landscape that occupied Agersnap throughout the turn-of-the-century period. Bare trees in a snow landscape were among his most consistent subjects: the deciduous trees of Denmark—beech, oak, ash—stripped of leaves in winter revealed their branching structures with particular clarity against pale sky and snow. The dimensions place this work in the middle range of his production, a completed work rather than a rapid study, representing a characteristic example of his sustained winter painting practice.

Agersnap's winter-tree compositions use bare branching patterns as graphic elements against pale sky and snow. The 37 × 54 cm format allows him to develop individual tree forms with some specificity while maintaining the broader tonal relationships of sky, snow, and tree mass.