"As with fellow Danish artists Carl Vilhelm Holsøe and Vilhelm Hammershøi, Broge painted simple domestic interior scenes. Such scenes, like this work, became increasingly popular among Danish painters as the country became more industrial, with implications of refuge as one partakes in peaceful normal activities in the home. http://books0977.tumblr.com/post/139738552447/interior-with-reading-woman-1919-karl-harald"