- Title:
- Interior
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Danish
- Brief description:
- In December 1898 Hammershøi moved into the old merchant house at Strandgade 30, Copenhagen, built in 1636. This painting portrays one of its rooms, and the model is his wife Ida, whom he married in 1891. The table was originally larger and filled most of the foreground, and the figure was added at the end. Pencil underdrawing is visible through the paint layer. The artist painted the interior of this house more than sixty times, sometimes portraying empty rooms, sometimes including the figure of his wife in a long black dress. She is either viewed in profile or from the back, often reading a letter or a book. In all the interiors a sense of stillness prevails, and they show the influence of 17th-century Dutch painting, particularly that of Johannes Vermeer.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Credit line:
- On loan from Tate: Presented in memory of Leonard Borwick by his friends through the Art Fund 1926
- Current location:
- Room 45
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 64.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 58.10
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- Oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Danish
- Object production date:
- 1899
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1899
- Date - latest:
- 1899
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Vilhelm Hammershøi
- Person's birth date:
- 1864
- Person's death date:
- 1916
- Other number:
- L712
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0DBA-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- L712
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- N04106
- Other number type:
- Lender Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-011Q-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- l2712
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- post-Impressionist
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 771
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Manet to Picasso.
- Reference details:
- Cat. 23 : p. 35 ; text : p. 64
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery : the art of worship : paintings, prayers, and readings for meditation /Nicholas Holtam.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 83)
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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