# Orchestra

- By: Nielsen, Ville Jais (Danish, 1886–1949)
- Date: 1941
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: height 64 cm, width 79 cm
- Culture: Danish
- Museum: [SMK – National Gallery of Denmark](https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS9060)
- 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/df65vd42x_kms9060.tif.jp2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

After her marriage to Jais Nielsen, much of the subject matter for Ville Jais-Nielsen’s art was found within the confines of the family home, first in their flat in Vesterbro, then in a detached house on Tjørnevej in Lyngby and from 1933 on Vingårds Allé in Hellerup. Their son, Henrik Jais-Nielsen (b. 1930), states that it was often the children’s lot to model for their mother. However, the family’s lively social life also provided suitable subject matter. Henrik Jais-Nielsen says: ‘... even while mother was still alive, my parents arranged a number of musical evenings with invited friends and acquaintances. My father’s co- worker for many years, Mogens Frese, played the violin, and a lady called Margrete Dahl played the piano. \[…\] The guests were seated around the musicians in a relaxed manner, and a new friend of the family, Bjørn Wiinblad, would quite naturally lay on the floor to draw his poetic figures, which would later become a million-dollar business.’ The guests were primarily Jais Nielsen’s circle of acquaintances. Ville Jais-Nielsen got her own circle of artist friends during her exile in Sweden in 1943–45.