Robert Panitzsch, Interior Scene With Lady At Dressing Table

Robert Panitzsch, Interior Scene With Lady At Dressing TableThis gentle early 20th century interior scene by Danish artist Robert Panitzsch (1879 1949) depicts a lady sitting at a dressing table while admiring a small bouquet. The back of her dress is brightly lit and her face partially turned. Panitzsch was particularly adept at rendering light as it cascades through a room and this is a good example of his work. He often painted this lady and its possibly his wife, Fanny (ne Christensen), who he met while

You can almost hear the gentle ripples as they cascade over small rocks

which became popular in the mid to late 19th-century

1900Provenance: FranceCondition: Very presentable

Overall size: 23½” x 30½” / 60cm x 77cm

the shoreline extends towards a distant vanishing point

The painting is titled ‘Arbetarfik’

1944Provenance: SwedenCondition: Very presentable overall

It’s a charming old scene and we particularly love how the country track is lit as it bends away to the right

An exquisite museum-quality late-19th-century oil painting by German painter

The painted is signed in the lower left

it’s likely that the artist knew the seated lady well

Cornelis I Westerbeek (1844-1903) has captured the effects of light superbly well