The Belgian artist Adolphe Keller painted genre scenes, landscapes and floral still lifes in a late impressionist style. He received his education at the academies of Brussels and Sint-Joost-ten-Node under the guidance of the landscape painter Henri Ottevaere. The landscape remained his most beloved subject throughout his life. In particular, the region around Oudegem on the edge of the Sonian Forest, where he settled in 1934, was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the painter.