Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25

His minimalism is also a major component of Scandinavian design, and many of his works is representative to this aesthetic, in addition to emphasis on natural lighting.

A 1910 painting of the same subject is located in Statens Museum for Kunst, which features a chair between the easel and the wall in addition to a porcelain bowl without a lid on the table visible in the back room.

[4] This variant is sparse in nature, which features the easel, a small side table half visible with one of the doors open, and a gilt.

[6] The museum purchased it through Jack Kilgore & Co.[7] Getty Museum Director Timothy Potts stated: "We are delighted to be able to add this extraordinary work by one of the most important Scandinavian artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to our collection."

and "Hammershøi clearly saw himself in the tradition of old master painters (he is often touted as ‘the modern Vermeer’), and I am sure visitors will see many resonances with paintings by other great northern European artists, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Edvard Munch.