art digest 03 / we are all living in turn of the 20th Century Danish paintings

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916): ”Interiør fra Strandgade 30”

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) Interior with a Young Man Reading

Peter Vilhelm Ilsted, Girl Reading a Letter in an Interior, 1908

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935) A mother and child at a window

Interior of Courtyard, Strandgade 30, 1899, Vilhelm Hammershøi

Interior with Potted Plant on Card Table, 1910-11, Malmö Konstmuseum Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864 - 1916) Bedroom, 1890

Interior, No. 30 Strandgade, 1906, by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916)

“I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark.
Dark gardening
in the vertigo cold.
in the hot paralysis.
Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks, “To Prisoners,” in To Disembark

Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864-1916), Den Hvide Dør [The White Door], 1888.

White Doors, Strandgade 30 Vilhelm Hammershøi

Woman in an Interior with a Mirror Carl Vilhelm Holsøe - 1898

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) A Writing Table and a Young Woman in an Interior (1900)

An Interior with a Young Girl Serving Tea Framed art print by Peter Vilhelm Ilsted

Vilhelm Hammershøi - Sunshine in the Living Room III, 1903

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Interior, Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Young Woman from Behind, 1904

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Interior with Artificial Light, 1909, Vilhelm Hammershøi

Carl Holsøe Interior Light (1863-1935)

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe, Girl in an interior

Mother and Child at the Table by Carl Holsøe (1863-1935)

Carl Holsøe, Interior With a Woman Reading.

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935) Interior with a Reading Lady

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935), danish painter.

Peter Ilsted (1861 - 1933) “Girl With a Tray”, 1915

Interior with Two Girls - Peter Ilsted

Peter Ilsted (1861 - 1933) Interior from Ilsted’s home with his daughter knitting, pieces of Empire furniture and a silhouette on the wall, 1904

Interior with a Lady at Her Spinet, Evening Light (1904). Peter Ilsted (Danish (1861-1933).

Peter Ilsted (Danish, 1861-1933), Interior with a Woman before a Mirror, Liselund, 1916

Looking Out The Window - Peter Ilsted - 1908

At Breakfast Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898

Laurits Andersen Ring - Young Girl Looking out a Window - 1885

Laurits Andersen Ring (Danish, 1854-1933) At the window. Ole Ring looks at Roskilde, 1925.

Laurits Andersen Ring - The Artist’s Wife (1897)

"Surely he will come?" Painting by Christen Dalsgaard

Turn of the century 1900s to 1920s Danish painting reflecting our lives in the Covid-19 self-isolation.

The banal, the quiet, the still, the poetic, the muted, the beauty of quarantine in the time of coronavirus. The quietude of home life in 2020 whilst we peer out at the world, and wait, and wonder, and reacquaint ourselves with our lives, our fears, our small joys, our follies, and our graces.

art digest 02 / “A man is a god in ruins.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Squall - Andrew Wyeth, 20th century

Trodden Weed (1951) Andrew Wyeth

Stephen Seymour Thomas - The Violin Student

Parmigianino, Portrait of a Man with a Book. 1524, oil on canvas. Private collection.

Jan Van Huysum, Nature Morte avec des Fruits 1722

Mercury about to Behead Argus Ubaldo Gandolfi, c. 1770-1775

A Sleeping Legionary in a Helmet, Ubaldo Gandolfi

Sala degli imperatori, Galleria Borghese, Rome. Photographed by Max Hutzel, c.1960.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) Study of a Young Man (c. 1760)

Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) Patroclus 1780 oil on canvas

(Nordic Summer Evening) Sven Bergh Richard, ca. 1899/90

St. Matthew and the Angel by Guido Reni, 1635–40

Still Life with Goblet and Fruit by Jan Jansz. van de Velde (1656)

Vanitas Still-Life (1659-60). Pieter Claesz. (Dutch, c.1597-1661). Oil on canvas.

Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario, 1628, Pieter Claesz

Attributed to Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1623) A Young Shephard Circa 1620-1625

Portrait of a boy, Albert Anker

A Roman Marble Sarcophagus Relief Torso of a Young Warrior, Eastern Mediterranean, 1st half of the 3rd Century AD.

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818

Giorgio da Castelfranco (1478-1510) Double Portrait (attributed to Giorgione)

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), Marriage, 1993. Tempera on panel prepared with gesso

Portrait of a man 1881 Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925)

Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) The Village Lovers 1882

Emile Friant (1863-1932) Ombres portées 1891

Anne-Louis Girodet De Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824)

Alexandre Boucher (detail)

1819

Isidore Pils (1813-1875)

Two head studies

1840-1845

Christen Købke (1810-1848) Portrait of Frederik Sødring 1832

Charles-Marie Bouton (1781-1853) The Drawing Lesson 1826

Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) Portret van een jonge man (detail) ca. 1640-1660

Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614-1669) Portret van Georg Pfründt ca. 1640

Pietro Canonica (1869-1959)

The artist in his studio, Charles Willson Peale. 1822, Pennsylvania academy of fine arts.

Silenus cradling the infant Dionysus.
Roman copy of A.D. 1st-2nd century after a bronze Greek original of ca 300 B.C. presumably by Lysippos.
Medium: Marble

Mars Vigilant (Man in Armor Holding a Pike), Jan van Bijlert, ca. 1630

Bo Bartlett - The Box, 2002 Oil on Linen

Details, part II: “Arabesque” series, contemporary, by Daniel Abel.

Elliott Erwitt, Acropolis Museum, Athens, 1976

Male acephalic body Inspired by Greek statues. Marble. Roman period. after J. C.

Head of Jupiter. 1st.century AD. Roman. bronze.

Luis Veldrof, aposentador mayor y conserje del Real Palacio - portrait by Vicente López y Portaña, 1823 detail

A Vanitas Still Life with an Hourglass, a Skull, a Violin, a Snuffed Candle, Coins, Books, Musical Scores, Cards, a Sword, a Helmet and a Woolen Cloth on a Table draped with a Persian Carpet, North Italian School, second half of the 17th Century

The Open Window, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe

Still Life with a Lute and a Guitar, Nicolas-Henry Jeaurat de Bertry