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Ordrupgaard Review
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Ordrupgaard 
- Address: Vilvordevej 110, Charlottenlund | Map It
- Phone: 39/64-11-83
- www.ordrupgaard.dk
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: Charlottenlund
Fodor's Review:
While in Charlottenlund, don't miss the remarkable Ordrupgaard, one of the largest museum collections of French impressionism in Europe outside France. Most of the great 19th-century French artists are represented, including Manet, Monet, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Alfred Sisley, Delacroix, and Pissarro. Particularly noteworthy is Delacroix's 1838 painting of George Sand. The original painting depicted Sand listening to her lover Chopin play the piano. For unknown reasons, the painting was divided, and the half portraying Chopin now hangs in the Louvre. The Ordrupgaard also has a superb collection of Danish Golden Age painters, from Christen Købke to Vilhelm Hammershøj, who has been called "the Danish Edward Hopper" because of the deft use of light and space in his haunting, solitary paintings. Perhaps best of all is that much of the magnificent collection is displayed, refreshingly, in a non-museum-like setting. The paintings hang on the walls of what was once the home of museum founder and art collector Wilhelm Hansen. The lovely interior of this graceful manor house dating from 1918 has been left just as it was when Hansen and his wife Henny lived here. The white-and-gold ceiling has intricate flower moldings, and the gleaming dark-wood tables are set with Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica porcelain. Interspersed among the paintings are windows that provide glimpses of the surrounding lush, park-size grounds of beech trees, sloping lawns, a rose garden, and an orchard.
- Cost: DKr 65
- Open: Tues., Thurs., and Fri. 1-5; Wed. 10-8; weekends 11-5
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