Poul Friis Nybo, Interior Scene With Woman At The Piano

Poul Friis Nybo, Interior Scene With Woman At The PianoThis gentle Danish interior scene sensitively depicts a young lady playing the piano by soft candlelight. Shes focused and lost to the music perhaps its a nightly serenade. Poul Friis Nybo (1869 1929) cherished these moments and often produced introspective scenes featuring women writing, reading or undertaking crafts. The painting is signed and housed within a gilt frame. Learn more about Poul Friis Nybo in our directory. Medium: Oil on canvasOverall

We love the deep contrast between the dark tree-lined riverbank and the light graduated sky

We love the cheeky half-smile and the brightness in the eyes

Together with his wife

Note the composition - he’s upright and creating the only vertical in the landscape

Émile Brunet did not bond easily

He deftly uses the effects of light to capture the imagination and his works pose more questions than they answer

towards the distant woodland

Panitzsch was born in Germany but later immigrated to Denmark and became a national

It’s possible that she returned to teach or perhaps attend further classes

Medium: Pencil and black chalk on paper

he enjoyed depicting scenes featuring regular working folk within simple interiors

An intriguing late 19th-century grisaille landscape painting by Danish painter