Artist
Vilhelm HammershøiDanish, 1864–1916
CultureDanish
Titles
- Composition de formes géométriques (Composition of Geometric Forms)
Date1879
MediumGraphite and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 3/16 × 13 11/16 in. (31 × 34.8 cm)
Frame: 21 7/16 × 25 3/16 × 2 3/4 in. (54.5 × 64 × 7 cm)
Frame: 21 7/16 × 25 3/16 × 2 3/4 in. (54.5 × 64 × 7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors
Object number2021.381
Not on view
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Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite on top left, in the hand of the artist’s mother: Tegnet hos H. Grønvold [dessiné à H. Grønvold] (Drawn to H Grønvold)
Fig. 5 Hammershøi, The Artist’s Mother, Frederikke Hammershoi, 1884, graphite and charcoal on paper, Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen
Recto: Stamp and inscribed in graphite on top right: FREMLAGT / I SKOLERAADET / 1/10 79 [Présenté à la commission scolaire 1/10 79] (Presented at the school board 1/10 79)
Fig. 5 Hammershøi, The Artist’s Mother, Frederikke Hammershoi, 1884, graphite and charcoal on paper, Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen
Recto: Stamp and inscribed in graphite on top right: FREMLAGT / I SKOLERAADET / 1/10 79 [Présenté à la commission scolaire 1/10 79] (Presented at the school board 1/10 79)
None noted
Catalogue raisonnéN/A
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