Jenny Nyström — Girl at the Piano on Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve, candles on the tree, a girl in a white dress at the piano — this is Jenny Nyström's Scandinavia at its most warmly domestic. Attributed to the Swedish master illustrator, this early 20th-century card captures a child absorbed in playing sheet music while the decorated tree glows behind her, orange-patterned wallpaper and a blue winter window completing a scene of complete Advent contentment. It makes an elegant Christmas greeting or a collectible for admirers of the Jenny Nyström collection.