Brendekilde — Old Man with Pipe, Child in Garden (Art Postcard)

An old man in a black coat and flat cap stands against the wall of a whitewashed farmhouse, pipe in hand, looking down the garden path where a child sits among the flower beds — blue delphiniums, red dahlias and green foliage crowding the border. A coat hangs on a hook by the door; beyond the fence, another thatched farmhouse sits in the open landscape. Signed lower left ‘H.A.B.’

Old age and young childhood share the summer garden — a quiet, contented corner of Brendekilde's rural world.