Interior of a Tavern

Gallery 259, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Pollack Gallery)

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Interior of a Tavern

1886

Peter Severin Krøyer (Danish, 1851–1909)

Peter Krøyer was a member of the Skagen School, a group of nineteenth-century painters who worked by the sea on the northern tip of Denmark every summer. He created this scene of fishermen gathered in a tavern in Skagen for John G. Johnson of Philadelphia, an eminent lawyer and avid art collector. Johnson, who rarely commissioned works from living artists, purchased a number of Scandinavian paintings with the assistance of Alexander Harrison, a Philadelphia-born marine painter who lived in Paris.

Gallery 259, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Pollack Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Interior of a Tavern

Date:

1886

Artist:

Peter Severin Krøyer (Danish, 1851–1909)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

33 3/4 × 45 inches (85.7 × 114.3 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 1015

Geography:

Made in France, Europe

Provenance

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Gallery 259, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Pollack Gallery)

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