Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 70 × 59 cm (27 9/16 × 23 1/4 in.); Framed: 85.5 × 75.3 × 8.9 cm (33 5/8 × 29 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Painting
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingWindowpianospaintcanvaslightoil on canvasoiloil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniquesgray (color)still lifeMusicmusical instrumentschairinterioroil painting20th Centuryeuropean paintinginstruments
About
This painting is part of a series by Vilhelm Hammershøi capturing his sparsely decorated apartment at Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Hammershøi often moved furniture and objects around his home like studio props: here, he placed a chair, piano, cello, and violin in a corner of the drawing room. Despite the inclusion of musical instruments, the scene evokes only eerie silence, with no sense of a human presence to play them. This is one of thirty-five works that comprise the Winterbotham Collection. Click here to learn more about the collection.
