Plucking the Christmas Geese
1904 · Oil on canvas · Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Anna Ancher (1859–1935)
- Year
- 1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
- Movement
- Realism
Four people sit in a plain wooden room, each with a white goose across their lap, plucking feathers into a large wicker basket on the floor. A man in a cap sits with his back to us, two women in headscarves work at the centre, and a woman in a red blouse holds a goose by the neck. Light falls from a small window at the back, and loose feathers drift over the floor. Anna Ancher, who was born and lived in Skagen, painted the working people of the town in everyday tasks. Roast goose is a traditional Danish Christmas Eve dinner. The painting is signed and dated 1904. It is in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Villagers plucking white geese in a brown wooden room lit by one small window. It suits a kitchen or dining room through the winter, beside Millet's The Gleaners; a dark wood frame matches its warm browns.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1904)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- kitchen, dining room, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from the original painting, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
