A Day of Celebration
Fanny Brate1902
Nationalmuseum Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
Fanny Brate has become best known for her domestic interiors painted around the turn of the last century. A Day of Celebration is her most widely recognised work and has been reproduced on everything from postcards to coffee tins.
In A Day of Celebration Brate depicts preparations for a name’s day party in a large room at her husband’s family estate, Brategården in Bråfors in the district of Bergslagen. The room features light furniture and textiles. The off-white Gustavian 18th-century furniture is combined here with older-style painted wall hangings and modern window dressing. The table is decorated with meadow flowers and ivy. All the greenery and light of nature appears to have moved indoors. In this work, Brate thus achieves a kind of interior open-air painting.
- Title: A Day of Celebration
- Creator: Fanny Brate
- Creator Lifespan: 1861/1940
- Creator Nationality: Swedish
- Creator Gender: Female
- Creator Death Place: Stockholm
- Creator Birth Place: Stockholm
- Date Created: 1902
- Title in Swedish: Namnsdag
- Signature: Fanny Brate 1902
- Physical Dimensions: w1100 x h880 cm (without frame)
- Artist Information: Fanny Brate was a Swedish artist. She is best known for her domestic interiors painted around the turn of the last century, e.g. A Day of Celebration 1902. The painting, held in the Nationalmuseum’s collection, has been reproduced on everything from postcards to coffee tins. Brate also worked as a portrait painter and illustrator. In 1879 she began her studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and in 1885 she was given an art scholarship that allowed her to study at the Académie Colarossi in Paris two years later. Having returned from Paris, she married philologist Erik Brate. The couple had four children, but this did not prevent Fanny Brate from continuing as an artist.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Nationalmuseum, Nationalmuseum
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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