Winter Nights in the Mountains

 Dreaming of Winter Nights in the Mountains...

One of my favourite paintings; so calming.

Winter Night in the Mountains (Norwegian: Vinternatt i fjellene),

 also known as Winter Night in Rondane (Norwegian: Vinternatt i Rondane),

 is the name of several versions of a composition created in several techniques by the Norwegian artist Harald Sohlberg (1869–1935).

The work depicts mountains covered by snow, under a deep blue-black cloudless evening sky. The foreground is framed by the silhouetted limbs of bare weathered trees, but the work is devoid of any sign of humans or animals. 

At the centre of the symmetrically balanced painting is a single bright star visible in a gap between two mountains. A cross is visible on the snow of a mountain peak to the right.

The painter made several studies in the period 1900–1902 in a variety of media, including charcoal, crayon, oil and watercolor.