# Under the Birch Trees [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KLODT, Mikhail Konstantinovich]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 27 x 48 cm ## Commentary KLODT, Mikhail Konstantinovich \(b. ca. 1832, St. Petersburg, d. 1902, St. Petersburg\) Under the Birch Trees 1874 Oil on canvas, 27 x 48 cm Private collection Klodt is considered to be a major figure in Russian landscape painting. He was fascinated in depicting forests, and they feature repeatedly in his work throughout his career. His present landscape depicts the Russian countryside with a lady and two children resting under the shade of some towering birch trees. The painting is signed in Cyrillic and dated lower right. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()