# The art historian Karl Madsen, later Director of Statens Museum for Kunst

- By: Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864–1916)
- Date: 1890
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: height 39 cm, width 28.5 cm, height 50.2 cm, width 41.1 cm
- Culture: Danish
- Museum: [SMK – National Gallery of Denmark](https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS4207)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iip-thumb.smk.dk/iiif/jp2/8623j172h_KMSKMS4207.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)