Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish, 1861-1933) The artist's daughters in an interior, Liselund Oil on canvas 22 x 26-3/4 inches (55.9 x 67.9 cm) Signed with monogram lower right Property from a Private Collection, Richmond, Virginia PROVENANCE: Christie's, London, 16 March 1989, lot 95; Private collection, acquired from the above; Bruun Rasmussen, Lyngby, Denmark, September 27, 2010, lot 19 (as Interior from Liselund with the artist's daughters reading); Acquired from the above. Peter Vilhelm Ilsted developed a distinctive vision of the domestic interior, transforming familiar rooms and everyday rituals into carefully structured studies of light, space, and atmosphere. His paintings frequently feature members of his family absorbed in reading, sewing, or quiet conversation, bringing a sense of lived intimacy to their ordered settings. This approach developed in close dialogue with the work of his friend Vilhelm Hammershøi, who became his brother-in-law when he married Ilsted's sister Ida in 1891. Ida would also serve as the model for some of Hammershøi's most important interior paintings. Ilsted and his wife, Ingeborg, had three daughters—Kamma, Eva, and Ellen—and the present work almost certainly depicts two of them reading together at Liselund Gammel Slot, the neoclassical country house built in 1792 on the island of Møn. Ilsted rented the lystslot (pleasure house) over successive summers, finding recurring inspiration for his paintings and mezzotints in its intimate rooms and distinctive furnishings. The girls' shared concentration gives the scene an understated narrative. At left, a small bobbin-lace box rests on a hall table, its carefully arranged threads and bobbins reinforcing the atmosphere of order and concentration, while the pair of portraits above the girls seems to preside silently over the scene. Through this balance of personal subject matter and formal restraint, Ilsted transforms the room into a study of psychological as well as physical space—a defining concern of his oeuvre. HID12401132022 © 2026 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice

Christie's, London, 16 March 1989, lot 95; Private collection, acquired from the above; Bruun Rasmussen, Lyngby, Denmark, September 27, 2010, lot 19 (as Interior from Liselund with the artist's daughters reading); Acquired from the above.

Lined. Minor frame abrasion at edges.
Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly. Brushy retouching throughout, concentrated along upper canvas edge, and in background.
Framed Dimensions 28.25 X 37.5 Inches