The Seamstress

The Seamstress

1881

Oil on canvas

Mått 130,00 x 165,00 x 2,50 cm Ram 156,00 x 192,50 x 5,00 cm

GKM 0328

Gift of A and D Köster, 1902

The painting takes us to a neat but relatively simple dwelling, shown with detailed realism. The woman at the sewing machine has been overcome by fatigue and is fast asleep, unaware of our eyes upon her. The warm light of the paraffin lamp—at that time something of a novelty—has competition from the cooler daylight that penetrates the blind. Krohg worked on the motif in several versions, and similar motifs were also painted by some of his contemporaries. Philippa Nanfeldt from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014

Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet (Nasjonalgalleriet), 15/06/2012 - 16/09/2012, no. 11 Åbo, Åbo Konstmuseum, 19/09/1991 - 27/10/1991

Sixten Strömbom, Konstnärsförbundets historia till och med 1890, Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1945, p. 151 Axel L. Romdahl, Konstmonologer i Göteborgs Museum, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm (1911) 1921, p. 50-52 Lennart Wærn, Pontus Fürstenberg som samlare, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, årg. LVII, häfte 3-4, Stockholm 1988, p. 25-27 Vibeke Waallann Hansen, Nils Ohlsen, Erik Mørstad et al., Christian Krohg. Bilder som griper/Pictures that captivate, red. Vibeke Waallann Hansen, Erik Mørstad, Birgitte Sauge, Marianne Yvenes, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, akritektur og design, Oslo 2012., no. 11, p. 26, 33, 37, 74, ill. p. 45 Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Björn Fredlund, Anna Hyltze, Philippa Nanfeldt, Isabella Nilsson, Johan Sjöström, Samlingen Göteborgs konstmuseum, red. Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Anna Hyltze, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg 2014., p. 214 Vibeke Waallann Hansen et. al, Christian Krohg. Le peuple du Nord, red. Servane Dargnies-de Vitry och Vibeke Waallann Hansen, Musée d'Orsay/Hazan, Paris, 2025., no. 57, ill. p. 120