Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1907

Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864–1916)

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.

Status: On View, Gallery 246
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Vilhelm Hammershøi
Title: Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30
Place: Denmark (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1907
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: VH
Dimensions: 70 × 59 cm (27 9/16 × 23 1/4 in.); Framed: 85.4 × 75.2 × 7.6 cm (33 5/8 × 29 5/8 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: Joseph Winterbotham Collection
Reference Number: 2023.1322
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Winkel & Magnussens, Copenhagen, Fortegnelse over en Fortrinlig Samling Malierier og Studier af Fremragende Danske Kunstnere, Oct. 1910, lot 17.
Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk (Copenhagen and Kristiania: Gyldendal, 1918), 107 no. 308.
Winkel & Magnussens, Copenhagen, Generaldirektør Ole Olsen’s efterladte Samlinger, Feb. 28, 1944 - Mar. 4, 1944, lot 717 (ill.).
Poul Vad, Vilhelm Hammershøi, (Copenhagen: Glyndendal, 1957), 21-22, pl. 37.
Poul Vad, Hammershøi: Værk og liv (Copenhagen: Glyndendal, 1988), 382 (ill.)
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (authors Pauline Lehmann Banke, Gianluca Pastorelli, Annette S. Ortiz Miranda, Loa Ludvigsen, Troels Filtenborg, Anne Haack Christensen), The Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive Project, ongoing, The Music Room analyzed in SMK’s laboratories and included in the archive 2022, no. EKS1175.

Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Arbejder af Vilhelm Hammershøi, Apr. - May, 1916, cat. 75.
Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Mit bedste Kunstværk, Oct. 1941, cat. 74.
Oslo, Kunstforening, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1955, cat. 37
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Apr. 23-May 15, 1955, cat. 42
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Hammershøi, Oct. 16-Nov. 29, 1981, cat. 119.
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Vilhelm Hammershøi: Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, Aug. 15-Oct. 19, 1997, cat. 50; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Nov. 18, 1997-Mar. 2, 1998; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 19-Sep. 7, 1998.
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, At Home with Hammershøi, Mar. 4-June 19, 2016, cat. 73

Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, October 1910, lot 17. Ole Olsen (1863–1943), Copenhagen, by 1916 [Copenhagen 1916]; with his daughter, Lady Elvira Abrahamsen (born Olsen; 1896–1981), Copenhagen, by 1941 [Copenhagen 1941]; sold, Olsen sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, Feb. 28, 1944, lot 717, to a private collection, Copenhagen; by descent through the family; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, May 16, 2023 to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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