Framed Oil Painting Depicting a Forest Fire

This is a dramatic landscape oil painting on canvas, housed in an ornate, deep-profile frame. The composition features a dense evergreen forest being consumed by an intense crown fire. The color palette is dominated by fiery oranges, deep reds, and glowing embers at the center, contrasted against the dark silhouettes of charred and burning trees and a heavy, billows of black and grey smoke filling the upper atmosphere. In the foreground, green undergrowth and fallen logs suggest the fire's rapid progression. The execution demonstrates a Romantic or Realist style, common in mid-20th-century landscape art, utilizing impasto techniques to achieve texture in the foliage and smoke regions. The frame is a dark-toned composite or wood with gilded inner beading and a fluted, textured profile. While no artist's signature is immediately visible in the lower corners in this view, the level of detail in the rendering of the atmospheric perspective and the complex lighting of the flames indicates professional craftsmanship. The condition appears stable with minor surface dust and typical minor wear to the frame corners; the canvas shows no immediate signs of sagging or cracking in this lighting.