Christmas trees cut in the woods, or bought in a seasonal market. Queen Marie and ordinary families gathered round, and finally falling asleep exhausted.
Zajicek
How the tradition of Christmas trees is relatively recent, family scenes of celebrating the day before Christmas, and how it also became a day to remember the poor and others less fortunate.
Goya’s crockery salesman, Lhermitte’s Les Halles in Paris, a trio of specialist markets, Rosa Bonheur’s horse fair in Paris, and the last hay market in London.
Paintings from around Europe and North America showing Christmas trees, decorations, family feasts, and Christmas markets.
Long popular in Germany, Christmas trees spread across Europe and North America in the 19th century. Some seasonal paintings.
The Eclectic Light Company 