Caroline van Deurs, A Silent Time

Caroline van Deurs, A Silent TimeThis late 19th century oil painting by Danish artist Caroline van Deurs (1860 1932) depicts a lady playing the violin in an interior. There she sits, violin in hand, attired in an elegant blue dress. The light, entering via a large window, illuminates the pages of sheet music, which rest upon a chair. The air is still aside from the accomplished rendering of classical music. Van Deurs has captured the atmosphere of this gentle environment sublimely.

Having become proficient in old master copies

The details are rendered with exceptional precision by an artist with great respect for the architecture before him

when back in their studio

Artist’s auction maximum: £30

Time has taken its toll

The portrait is housed within a carved 18th-century frame that’s possibly its original and a label on the reverse refers to Venables Fine Arts of Washington

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perhaps holding this very painting

he was managing its new School of Fine Arts

and National Gallery of Art

This late 19th-century oil painting by German artist Curt Ruger (1867-1930) depicts a young girl seated

which led to an apprenticeship at just 11 years old