In the Woods, Francis Hopkinson Smith, watercolor and gouache on board, roughly 26 x 16″ ( 67 x 41 cm); in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
Smith was an American painter, author and engineer, whose accomplishments included the design and engineering for the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
In this 1877 painting he does an intimate study of two trees, one large, textural and dotted with fungus, the other a sapling with lacy foliage. I love how lightly suggested the background of the forest appears.