A corner of the living room. Interior.

Completed in 1916, this canvas depicting a corner of a living room interior belongs to Ancher's late series of domestic interiors, works in which specific architectural corners, window nooks, and room fragments become studies in the way light inhabits enclosed spaces. By this point in her career, Ancher had been painting Skagen interiors for over four decades, and her command of the subject was total. The word 'corner' in the title is significant: Ancher's late interiors increasingly narrow their field of vision, moving from the broader domestic scenes of her middle period toward more concentrated, almost abstract explorations of a particular quality of light in a specific portion of a room. This approach finds parallels in Hammershøi's contemporary interior paintings, though Ancher's work retained the warmth and human accessibility that distinguish it from Hammershøi's cooler, more existentially charged atmospheres. The 1916 date places this work within the final decade of the First World War, a period when the intimacy of the domestic interior must have carried particular resonance as a counter-image to the unprecedented violence occurring across the Channel. Ancher's persistence in painting the quiet, undramatic spaces of everyday Skagen life took on a quality of stubborn affirmation during these years.

Oil on canvas with concentrated attention on a limited spatial field — the corner as a compositional unit. Light entering from multiple windows or reflected from surfaces creates complex overlapping illumination that Ancher maps with patient tonal precision. The palette is warm and domestic.