From Christianshavn's Canal, Copenhagen
1905 · Oil on canvas · Statens Museum for Kunst
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916)
- Year
- 1905
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 33.1 × 40.8 cm
- Collection
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen
- Movement
- Symbolism
The bows of three dark sailing ships lie moored side by side, their masts and rigging drawn in quick brown lines that criss-cross a pale sky. Behind them runs a band of orange-brown quayside wall, and the right-hand third of the canvas is left almost bare, the cream ground showing through. Hammershøi painted this small study in 1905 on the canal in Christianshavn, the Copenhagen district where his home stood. It belonged to his widow Ida, then to Karl Madsen and his descendants, and the National Gallery of Denmark acquired it in 2005.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Cream, umber and a band of rust-orange suit a hallway, study or coastal room with white or natural plaster walls. Pair it with Whistler's Wapping and hang this one at 16×24 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1905)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. 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.
