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Interior of a Tavern  1886

by Peder Severin Krøyer

Peter Krøyer was a member of the Skagen School, a group of nineteenth-century painters who worked by the sea on the northern tip of Denmark every summer. He created this scene of fishermen gathered in a tavern in Skagen for John G. Johnson of Philadelphia, an eminent lawyer and avid art collector. Johnson, who rarely commissioned works from living artists, purchased a numb...
Size: 
33 3/4 x 45 inches (85.7 x 114.3 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art