Souvenir des Cressonnières à Veules

A landscape etching by Dutch artist Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravensande depicting a wooded stream scene. Tall trees line both banks of a calm water passage, their trunks rendered in dense cross-hatching characteristic of 19th-century printmaking. Foreground vegetation and rocky outcrops frame the composition, while distant foliage creates atmospheric depth. The work captures a specific locale—the watercress beds of Veules in Normandy—combining topographical precision with romantic sensibility. Storm van 's-Gravensande worked across Europe as a landscape artist and printmaker, contributing to the period's expansion of etching as both a fine art medium and documentation of European natural and rural sites.