This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Adolf Heinrich Hansen (1859-1925) depicts a beautifully decorated room within a grand manor house. Hansen was an academy-trained painter of buildings, cityscapes, animals and interiors.As Summer gives way to Autumn, nordic light cascades through an open window across palatial gilt furnishings in the ornate Rococo taste. Illuminated blooms in pink, white and violet emerge from a decorative vase. It�s a sumptuous ensemble of bourgeois fineries.Born in Copenhagen, Hansen was initially taught by his father, Heinrich Hansen, a distinguished architectural painter responsible for numerous high-profile commissions. His father�s work included decorating the burial chapel of King Christian IV and aiding with restoration projects at various castles. He was also a professor of perspective at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.As a boy, he would�ve been educated in the basics of precise draughtsmanship, with an emphasis on foresho...