Riding through the lyme grass.

Riding through the Lyme Grass by Laurits Tuxen, dated around 1900, depicts figures moving through the distinctive coastal grass that grows on Danish and Scandinavian sand dunes — a landscape immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with the North Sea coast. Tuxen, who maintained a home in Skagen alongside Krøyer and others in the artists' colony, painted many subjects drawn from this coastal environment between his grander royal commissions. Lyme grass (marram grass) sculpts dunes into soft, undulating forms that offered painters both textural interest and a context for figures moving through windswept coastal scenery.

Tuxen captures the movement of riders and grass together — the wind's animation expressed through gestural handling of both the riders' posture and the bending stems of the coastal grass. The palette is salt-bleached and atmospheric, dominated by sandy yellows and grey-greens under diffuse northern sky.