Emilie Mundt (b. Sorø 1849, d. Frederiksberg 1922)
A summer day. Two women in a garden, one standing and contemplating the landscape the other sitting, respectively, bent over her crochet. Signed and dated Emilie Mundt 1903. Oil on canvas. 48×61 cm.
Exhibited: Presumably Charlottenborg 1904 no. 372 entitled “”Sommermorgen“ (Summer morning) or Charlottenborg 1905 no. 345 entitled ”Sommerdag på landet" (Summer day in the country) (remnants of an exhibition label on the stretcher).
It is uncertain who the two women are, but the standing one could be identical to the woman sitting in profile as no. 2 from the left on Mundt's large painting from 1904 “En femkantet l'hombre i atelieret” (Five-handed l'hombre in the studio) (Vardemuseerne). The woman is the actress Andrea Lambert - she has the same characteristic nose, mouth and forehead in both paintings. The seated woman in this painting could be the court photographer Mary Steen (1856–1939), sitting next to Lambert, almost en face, on the l'hombre painting. Her costume on this painting is more of a work coat than an ordinary dress and indicates that it is a working woman.
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Paintings & drawings, 1 December 2020