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Alfred Broge, Interior with Woman & Dressing Table - Antique Oil Painting

1900 - 1920
Sold 9 December 2024 · Brave Fine Art
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This beautiful early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Alfred Broge (1870-1955) depicts a lady seated by a dressing table.

Amid the solitude of a hushed environment, she rests in contemplation. Yellow blooms sit adjacent to a half-burnt candle, a portrait of a woman hangs proudly in gilt, an oval dressing mirror displays a vertical glimpse of light. It’s innocuous but somehow poignant. Broge was a master of such scenes, capturing passing moments with dextrous handling. Note the dabs of light on the pointed shoe and the skilful rendering of the loose brown dress.

Born in Copenhagen, Broge trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Rudolph Bissen (1846-1911) before exhibiting widely, including at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition.

Signed in the lower left and held in a later gilt frame.

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Overall size: 21½” x 25” / 55cm x 64cm

Year of creation: c. 1920

Provenance: With Hubert Faure (1919-2020), Piccadilly, London / Private collection, UK.

Condition: Cleaned. Frame in good condition with minor age-related wear.

Artist’s auction maximum: £11,000 for ‘A Young Fishergirl (1919)’, Oil on canvas, Sotheby’s, 19th And 20th Century Scandinavian Paintings, Watercolours And Sculpture, London, 1990 (lot 170).

Our reference: BRV1991

Date of Manufacture

Brave Fine Art has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 1920s.

Physical Dimensions
Height
64cm (25.20")
Width
55cm (21.65")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Reference Numbers
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SA1106461
Description
This beautiful early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Alfred Broge (1870-1955) depicts a lady seated by a dressing table.

Amid the solitude of a hushed environment, she rests in contemplation.

“
Yellow blooms sit adjacent to a half-burnt candle, a portrait of a woman hangs proudly in gilt, an oval dressing mirror displays a vertical glimpse of light.
Brave Fine Art

It’s innocuous but somehow poignant. Broge was a master of such scenes, capturing passing moments with dextrous handling. Note the dabs of light on the pointed shoe and the skilful rendering of the loose brown dress.

fig 1. An antique framed oil painting depicting an interior scene with a woman seated at a dressing table.
fig 1. Alfred Broge, Interior with Woman & Dressing Table - Antique Oil Painting

Born in Copenhagen, Broge trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Rudolph Bissen (1846-1911) before exhibiting widely, including at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition.

Signed in the lower left and held in a later gilt frame.

fig 2. An antique framed oil painting depicting an interior scene with a woman seated at a dressing table.
fig 2. Alfred Broge, Interior with Woman & Dressing Table - Antique Oil Painting

Learn more about Alfred Broge in our directory.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Overall size: 21½” x 25” / 55cm x 64cm

Year of creation: c. 1920

Provenance: With Hubert Faure (1919-2020), Piccadilly, London / Private collection, UK.

fig 3. An antique framed oil painting depicting an interior scene with a woman seated at a dressing table.
fig 3. Alfred Broge, Interior with Woman & Dressing Table - Antique Oil Painting

Condition: Cleaned. Frame in good condition with minor age-related wear.

Artist’s auction maximum: £11,000 for ‘A Young Fishergirl (1919)’, Oil on canvas, Sotheby’s, 19th And 20th Century Scandinavian Paintings, Watercolours And Sculpture, London, 1990 (lot 170).

Our reference: BRV1991

Date of Manufacture

Brave Fine Art has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 1920s.

Height
64cm (25.20")
Width
55cm (21.65")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Reference Numbers
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SA1106461
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  • ObjectPaintings
  • Period1900 - 1920
  • StyleRealism
  • MaterialOil paint, canvas, wood, gilt
  • ColourWarm Brown
  • MotifsInterior domestic scene, Gilt wooden frame, Figurative portraiture
  • SizeH 64 cm (25 in) x W 55 cm (22 in) x D 5 cm (2 in)

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These works typically feature realistic representation, careful attention to light and shadow, and intimate domestic or portrait subjects characteristic of nineteenth and early twentieth-century academic and realist traditions.

Authentic pieces are usually executed with oil-based pigments on woven linen or cotton canvas, stretched over wooden stretcher frames, and housed in hand-gilded wooden mouldings.

Authentication involves examining the canvas weave, inspecting the oxidisation of the oil paint under magnification, checking for artist signatures, and evaluating the construction methods of the frame and stretcher bars.

They provide a focal point when hung on neutral walls with dedicated picture lighting, contrasting traditional craftsmanship with clean-lined modern furnishings to create depth and character.

Paintings should be kept away from direct sunlight and high humidity, avoiding chemical cleaners on the canvas, and periodically inspected by a professional conservator for surface dust and varnish stability.
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