Text Appearing Before Image: before the Danish Society of Science isimbued with an almost solemn dignity. Thegrouping is excellent, the likenesses capital, thediffusion of the hght from the huge chandeliersdone with the utmost skill. Surely one rarelysees so many admirably individualised portraits onone canvas, in addition to which the bearing of thewhole picture is most complete and harmonious.This, perhaps, is one of Kroyers greatest gifts : thepower to endow a figure or a number of figureswith an unmistakable, a perfect individuality.Thus, in his picture (one of his best, I consider)of the committee of a French exhibition inCopenhagen, many of the likenesses are almostideal, and so full of life and verve that one feelsquite instinctively that it is an assembly of pro-minent Frenchmen. How easy and naturally ^. \ ■-■ iU ^M i 1 1 IP 1- ^^^^KTIW^ ■ MEM^^^^^K- i S \ ^tti 1 r <» P 1 ^ i 1 li3l-«i 1 1 ^H mi / i v^ V m A Jm i ^ ^^ ^ ^f • ^ * 1 ■ ^^^^ P* ^ fH^hHI THE TRADESMEN S BOOTH 34 BY P. S. KROYER Text Appearing After Image: Portrait of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson by Peder Severin Krøyer p. S. Krdyer, Danish Painter they sit at the table, how illusionary the blendingof the double light, and what an indescribablefestivity pervades the entire scene ! Kroyer has perpetuated a number of interestinggatherings and functions, amongst them the crowdeddinner table at hospitable Aulestad, BjornstjerneBjornsons home on the Gaus Valley, and others.Mme. Bjornson did not exactly think it necessaryto display her ear-trumpet, but Kroyer, thinking itquite belonged to her, and that it would not quitebe she without it, insisted upon depicting her withit. From the same date hails the striking portraitof Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the great Norsemanstanding out like a chieftain against the picturesqueslopes that surround his home. Bjornson hasbeen painted times innumerable—five or six timesby von Lenbach, for instance—but Kroyers power-ful picture ranks high amongst them all. Although there have been no sudden revolu-tionary changes in Kr
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1901
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height: 170 cm (66.9 in) ; width: 130 cm (51.1 in)
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