Christmas Day
1903 · Oil on canvas · Skagens Museum, Skagen
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Michael Ancher (1849–1927)
- Year
- 1903
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 142 × 221 cm
- Collection
- Skagens Museum, Skagen
- Movement
- Realism
Five women sit behind a table covered with a white damask cloth, a large open Bible resting on it. Four wear black dresses with white lace at the collar. The eldest sits in the centre with her hands folded and a black scarf over her head, and a girl in a yellow dress leans on a chair at the right. Paintings of a stormy sea hang on the dark panelled wall behind them. Michael Ancher painted the women of the Brøndum family of Skagen: his wife, the painter Anna Ancher, her mother Ane Hedvig, her sisters Marie and Hulda, and his daughter Helga. The Danish title, Juledag 1900, names the Christmas gathering it records. Ancher finished the painting in 1903. It is in the Skagens Museum.
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
Five women in black around a white tablecloth, set against a dark wall of sea paintings. It suits a dining room or living room for the holiday season, beside Hammershøi's Evening in the Drawing Room; frame it in dark wood.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1903)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard. 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
