Evening in the Drawing Room
1904 · Oil on canvas · Statens Museum for Kunst
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916)
- Year
- 1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 101 × 123.5 cm
- Collection
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen
- Movement
- Symbolism
Four people gather round a softly lit table in a dark room at night, the tall windows behind them black. A man with grey hair sits in the foreground with his back half turned, his head bent over the table; across from him a bearded man looks out, a woman's pale face catches the light, and a fourth figure stands at the right. Almost everything else dissolves into brown-black shadow. A longer title recorded by the National Gallery of Denmark names them as Henry Madsen, Ida Hammershøi, the painter's brother Svend Hammershøi and, in front, Thorvald Bindesbøll. Painted in 1904, it was acquired in 1970.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Deep browns and near-black around one pale glowing table suit a dining room, library or a dark-walled snug lit by lamps. Pair it with Van Gogh's The Potato Eaters and hang this one at 24×36 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1904)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- dining room, study or library, living room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
