Moonlight, Strandgade 30
1900–1906
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (41 x 51.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, European Paintings Funds, and Annette de la Renta Gift, 2012
Accession Number
2012.203
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About this artwork
This interior scene depicts a room in the artist's Copenhagen apartment bathed in moonlight, painted by Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi between 1900 and 1906. The composition shows an unadorned parlor glowing deep mauve in nocturnal light, with a view through a window onto a windowed loggia across a courtyard. The emptiness of the space accentuates the qualities of illumination and the geometric patterns of the architecture, creating an atmosphere of stillness and contemplation. Hammershøi live...
Art Historical Context
In the quiet heart of Copenhagen, Vilhelm Hammershi transformed his own apartment at Strandgade 30 a canvas of introspection. Painted between 1900 and 1906, *Moonlight, Strandg 30* captures a moonlit parlor in oil on canvas, bathed in deep mauve tones glow with nocturnal serenity. This unadorned interior, viewed through open doors and windows onto a courtyard loggia, exemplifies Hammershøi's lifelong fascination with his home, which he depicted at various times of day from 1898 to 1909. Hammershøi, Denmark's preeminent painter of interiors, earned international fame as the master of "silence ...