Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30

1. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, October 1910, lot 17. Ole Olsen (1863–1943), Copenhagen, by 1916 [Copenhagen 1916]; with his daughter, Lady Elvira Abrahamsen (born Olsen; 1896–1981), Copenhagen, by 1941 [Copenhagen 1941]; sold, Olsen sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, Feb. 28, 1944, lot 717, to a private collection, Copenhagen; by descent through the family; sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 2023 to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Arbejder af Vilhelm Hammershøi, Apr. - May, 1916, cat. 75.
• Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Mit bedste Kunstværk, Oct. 1941, cat. 74.
• Oslo, Kunstforening, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1955, cat. 37
• Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Apr. 23-May 15, 1955, cat. 42
• Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Hammershøi, Oct. 16-Nov. 29, 1981, cat. 119.
• Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Vilhelm Hammershøi: Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, Aug. 15-Oct. 19, 1997, cat. 50; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Nov. 18, 1997-Mar. 2, 1998; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 19-Sep. 7, 1998.
• Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, At Home with Hammershøi, Mar. 4-June 19, 2016, cat. 73.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Hammershøi: El ojo que escucha, Feb. 17–May 31, 2026, cat. 52; Kunsthaus Zürich, July 3–Oct. 25, 2026 [Madrid only].

• Winkel & Magnussens, Copenhagen, Fortegnelse over en Fortrinlig Samling Malierier og Studier af Fremragende Danske Kunstnere, Oct. 1910, lot 17.
• Sophus Michaëlis and Alfred Bramsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Kunstneren og hans værk (Copenhagen and Kristiania: Gyldendal, 1918), 107 no. 308.
• Winkel & Magnussens, Copenhagen, Generaldirektør Ole Olsen's efterladte Samlinger, Feb. 28, 1944 - Mar. 4, 1944, lot 717 (ill.).
• Poul Vad, Vilhelm Hammershøi, (Copenhagen: Glyndendal, 1957), 21-22, pl. 37.
• Poul Vad, Hammershøi: Værk og liv (Copenhagen: Glyndendal, 1988), 382 (ill.)
• Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (authors Pauline Lehmann Banke, Gianluca Pastorelli, Annette S. Ortiz Miranda, Loa Ludvigsen, Troels Filtenborg, Anne Haack Christensen), The Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive Project, ongoing, The Music Room analyzed in SMK’s laboratories and included in the archive 2022, no. EKS1175.
• James Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 73 (ill.).
• Clara Marcellán, Hammershøi: El ojo que escucha, exh. cat. (Madrid: Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2026), 29, 40 (ill.), 41–42, 44, 134–35 (ill.), 197, 204–7, cat. 52.
• James Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 151, 262, no. 110, (illl.).

Self-Portrait at Spurveskjul

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Moonlight, Strandgade 30

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Vilhelm Hammershøi

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure Reading at a Table in an Interior at Night

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Slender Trees on a Hill

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Forest at Pontaubert

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jar

Art Institute of Chicago

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