# A Party in the Artist's Home

- By: Julius Paulsen (Danish, 1860–1940)
- Date: 1915
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: height 190 cm, width 190.5 cm
- Culture: Danish
- Museum: [SMK – National Gallery of Denmark](https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS3313)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/smk/47429c95p_kms3313.tif.reconstructed.tif.jp2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Shy and retiring, Hammershøi preferred not to attract interest. It is typical, then, that he is not at the centre of Julius Paulsen’s group, but discreetly withdrawn (far left). Hammershøi’s circle of friends featured many artists and writers, including Paulsen, a late 19th-c. painter of moods and atmospheres who worked with portraits and landscapes (see room 225). His group portrait shares the densely atmospheric quality of Hammershøi’s art, but uses a wider palette. The other people at the party are (l-r) Paulsen’s wife Esther, née Lange, writer Louis Levy, architect Hans Koch, writer Sven Lange, and the artist’s daughter Inger (who married Hugo Liisberg, a sculptor). The painting was done the year before Hammershøi’s death.