Resting Cows. Motif from Öland, Nils Kreuger, 20??, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Landscape, Eggedal, Harriet Backer, 19??, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Church-Goers in a Boat, Carl Wilhelmson, 1909, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Carl Wilhelmson found most of his subjects in his native Bohuslän. His brightly lit scenes portray the province’s austere, rocky landscape and hard-working fishing communities with gravity and dignity. This painting shows rowing boats putting out from outside the church in Fiskebäckskil to take churchgoers back home after the Sunday service. The special painting technique and bright, luminous palette reflect influences from Wilhelmson’s time in France and artists such as Paul Gauguin.
The Explorer A.E. Nordenskiöld, Georg von Rosen, 19??, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Evening by the Shore. Motif from Oxelösund, Wilhelm Jaensson, 19??, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Sofia Amalia, 1628-1685, prinsessa av Braunschweig-Lüneburg, drottning av Danmark, Jacques D’ Agar, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Flowers on the Windowsill. From A Home (26 watercolours), Carl Larsson, Nationalmuseum, SWE
This is one of Larsson’s most famous watercolours from Lilla Hyttnäs. The interior illustrates several of the ideals Ellen Key presented in Beauty for All. Daylight pours in and through the open window the room is filled with fresh air. The 19th-century heavy curtains with tassels, fringes and dust-gathering drapes are conspicuously absent here. On the windowsill are plants in plain clay pots. There are no brightly-painted flowerpots decorated with raised floral or animal motifs. The ideal object, according to Key, simply serves its purpose. Pots are for flowers, and the best adornment for a windowsill was natural, green plants – not richly-decorated flowerpots. Carl Larsson’s A Home stated clearly that “artificial flowers with ribbons, dust and microbes” were not desirable.
Karl XI på dödsbädden, David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Landscape with a Fortress, Marten Rijckaert, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Landskap med soldater, Andrea Locatelli, Nationalmuseum, SWE
På en klippa intill stora knotiga träd avteckna sig några soldater, varav två i hjälmar, och kvinnor samt en hund mot den delvis mycket ljusa, delvis molntäckta himmelen.
Birgethe Dorthe and Kirstne Margarethe Colstrup, Per Krafft d.ä., 18??, Nationalmuseum, SWE