Jeune Joueuse de Mandoline dans un Intérieur Danois , Brita Barnekow , 1913, Hst.

Jeune Joueuse de Mandoline . Signé du  monogramme BB  and daté 1913. Oil on canvas. 67×54 cm.
Dans un intérieur chargé de tableaux et de musique, une toute jeune fille s'applique à la mandoline. Cette scène d'une grande douceur et l'œuvre d'une femme peintre Brita Barnekow qui étudia notamment à Paris, à l''Academie de la Grande Chaumière 
Notre tableau fut exposé en 1914 au Salon de Charlottenburg (au dos,   étiquette No34) 
Provenane : par succession familiale directe 

Brita Barnekow was a student of the painters Marie Vilhelmine Bang (in 1883–85) and Frants Henningsen (in 1885–87). In the years 1889–93, she studied at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Art for Women (Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinder), from which she did not pass, but received praise and a scholarship. She later traveled to Paris, where she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She also travelled to London and Italy. She mainly worked with portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings, and she also made a few coloured woodcuts. Barnekow exhibited for many years at the Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg and several times at the Artists’ Autumn Exhibition, and she also participated in the Women’s Exhibition (Kvindernes Udstilling fra Fortid og Nutid) in 1895 and the Women Artists’ Retrospective Exhibition (Kvindelige Kunstneres Retrospektive Udstilling) in 1920 in Copenhagen.