Alfred Broge, Interior With Woman & Dressing Table

Alfred Broge, Interior With Woman & Dressing TableThis 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. Its innocuous but somehow poignant. Broge was a master of such scenes, capturing passing

Both are housed in later gilt frames

Medium: Copperplate engravingOverall size: 23½” x 20” / 60cm x 51cmYear of creation: 1786Labels & Inscriptions: N

he witnessed the first of three revolutions first-hand and the fall of the French establishment

Year of creation: 1904

of no relation

and Manchester Art Gallery

City of Edinburgh Collection

while she hides behind a wall

The painting is monogrammed in the lower right and dated 1908

styled in the latest fashion

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17” x 20½” / 44cm x 52cmYear of creation: c

so it’s plausible that it once hung at Thame Park in Oxfordshire