A smoking party. Councillor Jürgensen's Sunday company

Bendz, Wilhelm Ferdinand (1804-1832)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1827-1828
Height:
98.5 cm  (38 3/4 in.)
Width:
85.0 cm  (33 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
Danish golden age

Additional titles

Et tobaksselskab. Justitsråd Jürgensens søndagsselskab
Tabakskollegium

    Item location

  • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    [Museum inv. no.: 1881]

Description

Ten males pictured, two with musical instruments, one holding a guitar, the other holding a violoncello.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]
Violoncello [3582]

Musical works

illegible music notation
Illegible printing, likely to be music, on stand with candles behind cellist.

Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2
Google Art Project image.

Bibliographic references

Salmen, Walter. Haus- und Kammer-Musik. Musikgeschichte in Bildern IV/3 (Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1969) 184.

Wilhelm Bendz, 1804-1832: A young painter of the Danish golden age: The Hirschsprung Collection, 17 February-27 May 1996 (Copenhagen: Hirschsprung Collection, 1996) 100-102, cat. 35.

Notes

Studies in preparation for this painting are cataloged in RIdIM records number 276 and number 1801.

RIdIM record id

1771