Woodland scene by Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted

This is not a photograph.

Every leaf and every reflection was put there by hand, in oil, by the Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted in 1894.

It is called Wooded path by a river, and it captures the hardest thing there is to paint: a forest in full sunlight. Light through trees… pic.twitter.com/I5ICRUXjtQ

— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) September 20, 2026