Two Candles on a Table
Original title
Vilhelm Hammershøi
- Institution
- SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ↗
- Accession
- KMS9203
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1916. SMK marks this image as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
- Description
- A small, loosely painted study of two tall white candles, both lit, in plain metal candlesticks on a white tablecloth, against a dark brown background.
- Image
- 1168 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009041
coldlibrary.com/g/009041 - Credit line
- Vilhelm Hammershøi, Two Candles on a Table, c. 1901. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), PDM-1.0. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009041
A quick study rather than a finished painting: two candles, a cloth and a dark wall in a few brown and grey strokes. Hammershøi spent his life on very few things, rooms, light and a handful of objects, and this is the shortest statement of them. Two lights on one table: very nearly the emblem of this library.
