An Evening with Girlfriends by Lamplight (1891). Anna Petersen (Danish, 1845-1910). Oil on canvas. Hirschsprung Collection.
An investigation by the Hirschsprung Collection revealed that the women were all contemporary artists The Danish painters Marie Krøyer and Bertha Wegmann and the Swedish painter Jeanna Bauck sit listening to the Danish violinist Frida Schytte. The gathering of these Scandinavian pioneers for women’s right to express themselves in the arts imbued the painting with a certain emblematic quality.
