Udkast til et lanskab med store bakker, løse rids af heste med og uden ryttere, o.a. 1831 - 1852

This is a pencil drawing by Dankvart Dreyer, titled "Draft for a landscape with large hills, loose sketches of horses with and without riders". The composition is dominated by the contrast between the spare, almost ethereal lines of the figures and the comparatively denser hatching of the landscape elements. This contrast immediately establishes a visual tension. The horses, rendered with a delicate touch, seem to emerge from the very fabric of the paper. The riders, merely suggested, add to the sense of transience. Dreyer's use of line is particularly striking, each stroke seemingly provisional, as if the forms are still in the process of becoming. This technique not only invites the viewer to participate in the act of creation but also destabilizes the notion of fixed representation. The drawing evokes a dreamlike state, a fleeting vision captured on paper. This interplay between absence and presence challenges the viewer to contemplate the nature of representation itself. The sketch’s incomplete nature reflects a broader artistic concern with process over product, suggesting that the act of drawing, of thinking through form, is as significant as any finished work.