Portret van Vilhelm Hammershoi

Portret van Vilhelm Hammershoi by Peter Vilhelm Ilsted

Medium

etching

Dimensions

104; 130

About this artwork

verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228

Art Historical Context

**Portret van Vilhelm Hammershøi** is a delicate etching by Danish artist Peter Vilhelm Ilsted, created in 1900. Measuring just 130mm high by 104mm wide, this intimate portrait captures the renowned painter Vilhelm Hammershøi, a contemporary and fellow Dane celebrated for his luminous, introspective interiors bathed in soft Nordic light. Ilsted, a master printmaker, renders Hammershøi with exquisite precision, highlighting the subtle interplay of light and shadow that defined both artists' oeuvres during Denmark's late 19th- and early 20th-century artistic renaissance. Etching, Ilsted's prefe...

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