Dancing Fairies by August Malmström, Panoramic Greeting Card/Money Holder with Ivory Envelope

Correspond in style! Send your love and greetings with this luxurious glossy greeting card featuring dancing fairies by August Malmström. The moon illuminates a still landscape through which a river flows sedately. Trees appear as dark silhouettes against the sky. Hand-in-hand, the elves sweep like a wispy mist through the landscape, their movements like a ring dance. One fairy kisses the surface of the water or is reflected in it. Like the others, she has long flowing hair and is wearing a garland. As a contemporary critic pointed out, you can either see the morning mist over the landscape as dancing elves, or you can see the dancing elves as a morning mist. If you choose to focus on the morning mist, the elves can be explained as the movement of the mist. The painting can then be described as a romantic landscape, where nature is imbued with a spirit of its own. If instead, you see the dancing elves as the key motif, the painting can be described as a depiction of the fairytale worl