Signed and dated 1908, this oil by Sigvard Hansen (1859–1938) shows Mürren, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.

Sigvard Marius Hansen was born in Copenhagen, where he studied porcelain painting at the Aluminia School of Art and then attended the city's Royal Academy of Art. He travelled through much of northern Europe, visiting England in 1878 to study ceramic and glass painting, and again from 1889–90.

Hansen won the Sødrings Prize in 1886, the Danish Royal Academy Medal in 1886, 1893 and 1902, and the Bielke Medal in 1895, and worked as a painter at the Aluminia Porcelain Company until 1882. His decorative arts training brought a distinctive precision to his later landscape painting.

Collectors of Danish nineteenth/twentieth-century painting and of Mürren/Bernese Oberland Alpine views will find this an unusual and finely finished example by an artist whose formal training was rooted in porcelain and decorative arts rather than landscape painting alone.