A Bite! (Carl Larsson) - Nationalmuseum - 23910
A Bite is perhaps the oil painting where Carl Larsson’s brushwork is most like that of his watercolours. This work is an example of how imaginative Rococo pastiche and plein-air naturalism need not be mutually ... More
A Communard (Nils Forsberg) - Nationalmuseum - 20117
From March to May 1871, Paris was governed by a revolutionary commune. Its supporters were called communards. The majority were radical-democratic petit bourgeois and workers. They introduced several fundamenta... More
A Country Cobbler (Harriet Backer) - Nationalmuseum - 19518
The Norwegian artist Harriet Backer is famous for her interiors with atmospheric lighting. Backer was a realist and strove to depict her subjects with the greatest possible veracity. She was also an Impressioni... More
A Day of Celebration (Fanny Brate) - Nationalmuseum - 18609
Fanny Brate has become best known for her domestic interiors painted around the turn of the last century. A Day of Celebration is her most widely recognised work and has been reproduced on everything from postc... More
A Day of Celebration. From A Home (26 watercolours) (Carl Larsson) - N...
This watercolour shows the Larsson children at five in the morning, all dressed up to celebrate the maid Emma on her name day, 23 July. The maids’ room in the farmhouse had been decorated by Karin Larsson, and ... More
A Fox Family (Bruno Liljefors) - Nationalmuseum - 18379
Bruno Liljefors’ paintings were based on a profound knowledge of nature – of its animals and every minute detail about their habitats. The undergrowth in A Fox Family matches the fox kits’ stage of development.... More
A Garden in Grez (Georg Pauli) - Nationalmuseum - 22314
Georg Pauli was in Grez in 1884. This study was probably made in the spring of that year. Like many other Swedes in Grez, Pauli found the setting for his painting in one of the guesthouse gardens in the village... More
A Lady with a Gentleman (Frederik Christian Camradt) - Nationalmuseum ...
Svenska: Beskrivning i "Illustrerad katalog över svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer II, Nationalmuseum": Litteratur: Art Bulletin of NM 1994-95, fig. 18 ; Colding 1994, s. 94,fpl. 12. Identifieringen av mod... More
A Pleasant Bathing-Place. From A Home (26 watercolours) (Carl Larsson)...
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A Studio Idyll. The Artist's Wife and their Daughter (Carl Larsson) - ...
Karin Larsson has her daughter Suzanne in her lap. They are sitting in Carl’s studio. Apart from his major commissions, practically all his works depict subjects that are close to him. Close, as in his family o... More
A Swedish Fairy Tale (Carl Larsson) - Nationalmuseum - 23889
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A Séance (Hugo Salmson) - Nationalmuseum - 19293
Rococo-inspired scenes in costume were a genre that appealed to the wealthy 19th century bourgeoisie. Most of the Swedes in Paris tried their hand at this style at some point. Hugo Salmson had probably paved th... More
A Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull, a Book and Roses (Jan Davidsz. de H...
This painting is an allegory of the transience of life. It shows a number of objects symbolising the fleetingness of time and the vanity of all human ambition. As moral and religious metaphors, they exhort the ... More
A View of Deal (Joseph Mallard William Turner) - Nationalmuseum - 2257...
On an agitated sea, we can make out people, boats and sails. The shifting colours and lights bring out the haze, the winter sun through the clouds and the powerful swell of the waves. This is one of a series of... More
A Winter Scene. Motif from Southern Stockholm (Axel Lindman) - Nationa...
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A young woman mourning a dead dove, a partridge, and a kingfisher (Jac...
Svenska: Beskrivning på inventarieblankett: På bordet framför en ung kvinna avbildad i halvfigur ligger tre döda fåglar, en duva, en rapphöna samt en kungsfiskare. Kvinnan är klädd i svart dräkt, håret är täckt... More
Above the Rooftops, Östermalm, Stockholm (Karl Nordström) - Nationalmu...
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Abraham Kayser - Nationalmuseum - 15402
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Achilles Receiving in his Tent the Envoys of Agamemnon (Jean-Auguste-D...
Ingres’ neo-classical style is characterized by pure contours and figures based on classical sculpture and on Raphael. This small sketch is a study for a larger painting. The large version won Ingres the first ... More
Adam Adami, 1603-1663 - Nationalmuseum - 15429
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Adlercreutz Karl Johan Adlercreutz, 1757-1815 (Carl Wilhelm Nordgren) ...
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Adolf Fredrik, 1710-1771, kung av Sverige, hertig av Holstein-Gottorp ...
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Adolf Fredrik, 1710-1771, kung av Sverige, hertig av Holstein-Gottorp ...
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Adriaan Pauw, 1585-1653 - Nationalmuseum - 14915
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Adriaan Pauw, 1585-1653 - Nationalmuseum - 15444
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After the Bath (Anders Zorn) - Nationalmuseum - 18956
Anders Zorn has come to be associated with paintings of nude young women bathing. In his early paintings on this theme, such as After the Bath from 1895, the women seem unaware of the spectator. They are not po... More
After the Hunt (Govert Dircksz. Camphuysen) - Nationalmuseum - 19398
Svenska: Govert Camphuysen hade ett avgörande inflytande över det svenska djur- och naturmåleriet. Den här målningen är en kombination av djur- stilleben och landskapsmåleri. I förgrunden till höger sitter en ... More
Air - Nationalmuseum - 18068
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Albrecht Dürer (1479-1528) - Nationalmuseum - 17250
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Alexander Bagratio, Prince of Georgia, Commander of the Russian Artill...
Svenska: Alexander Bagration föddes i Tbilisi i dåvarande Imeretien (idag Georgien) men växte upp i Moskva. Han var generalfälttygmästare i tsar Peter den stores armé och deltog på den ryska sidan i slaget vid ... More
Alexander Roslin, 1718-1793 (Johan Zakarias Blackstadius) - Nationalmu...
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Alexander VII, 1599-1667, påve - Nationalmuseum - 15405
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Alexander von Erskein, 1598-1656 - Nationalmuseum - 15600
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Alexander's Victory over Darius (Pehr Hörberg) - Nationalmuseum - 2184...
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Allegori över hur konung Karl XI mottager regeringen av sin moder Hedv...
Svenska: På ett med rödklätt, guldbroderat tyg överklätt podium lämnar änkedrottningen en guldspira i konung Karl XI:s hand. Hedvig Eleonora är framställd i helfigur med huvudet i profil vänster och kroppen fas... More
Allegori över Karl Gustav och Fredrik prinsar av Sverige - Nationalmus...
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Allegori över Konung Karl X Gustafs förmälning (David Klöcker Ehrenstr...
Svenska: På ett moln sitter Providentia divina, Guds försyn, välsignande Karl X Gustafs och Hedvig Eleonoras förmälning, framställd genom två ur molnet utsträckta händer, vilka fatta varandra. Providentia är if... More
Allegori över konung Karl XIs fredliga regeringr (David Klöcker Ehrens...
Svenska: I mitten på en tron under ett rött draperi med Karl XI:s namnchiffer sitter Svea, iklädd diadem, klänning av guldtyg samt blå kronströdd hermelinsmantel. Hon förenar med sin högra hand Rättvisan och Fr... More
Allegori över Konung Karl XIs födelse (David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl) - Na...
Svenska: På en sky sitta ödesgudinnorna, Clotho, i skär klänning och röd mantel, Lachesis, i vit öppen underklänning och gul mantel samt Atropos, gråklädd. Ur den ljusa himmelen framsträckas två händer, vilka ö... More
Allegori över konung Karl XIs och drottning Ulrika Eleonoras förening ...
Svenska: Tre gudinnor, Caritas (kärleken), Constantia (beständigheten) och Concordia (endräkten) hålla tillsamman upp två ovala porträttmålningar föreställande Karl XI och Ulrika Eleonora d.ä. Gudinnorna äro kl... More
Allegori över konung Karl XIs och drottning Ulrika Eleonoras förmälnin...
Svenska: Kring en strålgloria utgående från Karl XI:s och Ulrika Eleonoras i ett starkt sken ställda, krönta monogram gruppera sig olika figurer. Längst upp till vänster sitter Providentia divina (Guds försyn) ... More
Allegori över kung Karl XIIs födelsedag (Andreas von Behn) - Nationalm...
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Allegori över rikets befästande genom tronarvingar (David Klöcker Ehre...
Svenska: På ett rikt skulpterat fundament av marmor med inskriptionen STABILIMENTUM REGNI står Svea (Suecia), iklädd vit med guldkronor broderad klänning, guldbroderad hermelinsfodrad mantel och diadem, tillsam... More
Allegori över rättvisan (Iustitia) (Bernardino Mei) - Nationalmuseum -...
Svenska: Målningen är en allegori där den kvinnliga gestalten i förgrunden, Iustitia, personifierar det abstrakta begreppet "rättvisan". Hennes attribut är vågskålen och svärdet. Den öppna boken nedtill till vä... More
Allegori över svenska konungars berömliga bedrifter (David Klöcker Ehr...
Svenska: I plafondens mitt ses Fortitudo (tapperheten) sväva bland molnen tillsammans med Virtus (dygden) och Gloria (äran) kring en sköld med initialerna G C och tre kronor (symboliserande Gustavers och Carlar... More
Allegori över änkedrottning Hedvig Eleonoras förmyndarregering (David ...
Svenska: På en rikt utsmyckad tron med Hedvig Eleonoras namnchiffer sitter den 24-åriga änkedrottningen i helfigur med huvudet fas vänster. Hon är iklädd en vit guldbroderad klänning och hermelinsfodrad purpurm... More
Allegory with self-portrait and profile portrait of Ulrika Eleonora th...
Svenska: Målningen återger fyra kvinnogestalter. Den högra gestalten som håller i penslar är möjligtvis ett självporträtt av Amalia von Königsmarck ( 1663-1740), en av Ehrenstrahls elever. Hon uppvisar ett måla... More
Allegory. Sweden, Finland and Mars, the God of War (Louis Masreliez) -...
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Altanasio Ridolfi - Nationalmuseum - 15431
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Alvise Contarina - Nationalmuseum - 15401
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Ambrogio Spinola?, 1569-1630 - Nationalmuseum - 39955
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Amphitrite or Allegory of the Element Water (Georg Engelhard Schröder)...
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An Allegory of Water ( Amphitrite ) - Nationalmuseum - 22289
Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 51: Technical notes: The support consists of a single piece of plain weave fabric with a coarse and dense structure... More
An Arctic Spring Day. Study from North Norway (Anna Boberg) - National...
Anna Boberg travelled to Norway and Lofoten for the first time in the summer of 1901. The countryside, the special light, the aurora borealis and midnight sun deeply impressed the artist. She made some three do... More
An August Night. Study from North Norway (Anna Boberg) - Nationalmuseu...
Anna Boberg was fascinated by the arctic landscape. From 1901 and onwards, she visited the Lofoten islands off the north-west coast of Norway year after year, often undertaking arduous expeditions to make oil s... More
An Unknown Man (David Teniers d.y.) - Nationalmuseum - 25896
Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 205: Technical notes: The painting’s support is a thin copper plate, less than ±1 mm thick, cut into an oval shape ... More
An Unknown Man (David Teniers d.y.) - Nationalmuseum - 25896FXD
Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 205: Technical notes: The painting’s support is a thin copper plate, less than ±1 mm thick, cut into an oval shape ... More
An Unknown Officer (Cornelius Höyer) - Nationalmuseum - 24657
Svenska: Beskrivning i "Illustrerad katalog över svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer II, Nationalmuseum, 2001": Ram: guld, hårlock på baksidan. Proveniens: Inköpt från Carl Ulrik Palms samling ; 1927 Gåva av... More
An Unknown Officer (Cornelius Höyer) - Nationalmuseum - 25071
Svenska: Beskrivning i "Illustrerad katalog över svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer II, Nationalmuseum, 2001": Litteratur: Asplund 1920, s. 188, kat.nr. 385, pl. 92 ; Nationalmuseum 1929, s. 84 ; Colding 19... More
Anders Mauritz Unfraun (1767-1829), bursar, c. 1786-89 (Anton Ulrik Be...
This portrait of Anton Ulrik Berndes’ brother-in-law complements the Museum’s already large collection of works by this highly prolific Swedish miniaturist. Anders Mauritz Unfraun served as a bursar for the cou... More
Anders Nordenhielm, 1633-1694 (David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl) - Nationalmu...
Svenska: Avbildad i blå rock och brun kappa. Midjebild huvud från vänster.
Andreas Burckardt - Nationalmuseum - 15408
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Anna Cruus af Gudhem, 1654-1692, g. Fleming af Liebelitz (David Kock) ...
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Anna Henrietta (Henrika?), 1648-1723, prinsessa av Pfalz - Nationalmus...
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Anna Margareta Gottsman, 1748-1821 (Jakob Björck) - Nationalmuseum - 1...
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Anna Sofia, 1647-1717, prinsessa av Danmark, kurfurstinna Av Sachsen -...
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Anthony Triest, biskop av Gent (Peter Adolf Hall) - Nationalmuseum - 2...
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Antiphonarium monasticum - Nationalmuseum - 25679
Svenska: Beskrivning i inventariet: Okänd böhmisk konstnär, om 1400. Judarna hotar att stena Kristus. Blad ur antifonarium. Initialen C är lagd över ett guldfält med grön, perspektiviskt sedd ram; initialen oms... More
Antoine de Brun, 1600-1654 - Nationalmuseum - 15450
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Antoinette Thérèse de Gergy, 1707-1767 (Jakob Björck) - Nationalmuseum...
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Anton Günter, greve av Oldenburg och Delmenhorst - Nationalmuseum - 15...
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Anton I, 1755-1836, kung av Sachsen, pendang till NMDs 1889 (Friedrich...
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Apple Tree in Blossom (Carl Fredrik Hill) - Nationalmuseum - 18868
Everything is thinly painted, except the blossoms in the tree, which are more impasto and wild. In this way, Carl Fredrik Hill has achieved a vibrant effect that closely resembles the impression of real apple t... More
Apple Tree in Flower. Motif from Barbizon (Axel Lindman) - Nationalmus...
Axel Lindman went to France to study landscape painting. On the outskirts of Paris in the 1870s, he discovered the new plein air painting that was developing near Barbizon. However, although Lindman was influen... More
Armand, 1629-1666, hertig av Conti - Nationalmuseum - 15837
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Aron Johansson (1860-1936), arkitekt, akvarellist, ledamot av Konstaka...
Svenska: Beskrivning på inventarieblankett: Helfigur. Sittande. F.h. Blond mustasch. Brun cigarr i munnen, ytterst röd glöd, grå askflagor samt smal lodrät uppåtstigande gråvit rök. Ansiktet till stor del i sku... More
Artemisia Building the Mausolaeum (Simon Vouet) - Nationalmuseum - 222...
The painting tells the story of how Queen Artemisia of Caria in Asia Minor supposedly ordered the building of the Mausolaeum at Halicarnassus in memory of her husband, Mausolus (352 B.C.). The Queen is said to ... More
Arvid Bernard Horn af Ekebyholm, 1664-1742 (Olof Arenius) - Nationalmu...
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Arvid Posse (1689-1754) - Public domain engraving
Svenska: Arvid Knutsson Posse, svensk, Född 1689, Död 1754. Public domain photograph of 18th-century male portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
At Breakfast (Laurits Andersen Ring) - Nationalmuseum - 21399
Seated at the breakfast table reading the morning paper is the artist’s wife, Sigrid Kähler. Light streams in through the open door, and outside we can make out the lush green of summer. The year is 1898 and t... More
At Djurgården in Stockholm (Christian Ezdorf) - Nationalmuseum - 18944
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At the Café, Morning in Paris (Märtha Tynell) - Nationalmuseum - 28349
Märta Tynell was fascinated by the different moods of the city. In a series of paintings from Paris, she has captured rooftops and empty streets in the misty rain of the early morning or at dusk. She came to Pa... More
At the Embroidery-Frame (Pehr Hilleström d.ä.) - Nationalmuseum - 1951...
A solitary flame – hidden by the woman’s hand – sheds a suggestive light on the dark interior. Hilleström described this painting as ”Two women inspecting a small picture or copperplate by candle-light”. The wo... More
August II den starke, 1670-1733, kurfurste av Sachsen, kung av Polen -...
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August II the Strong, 1670-1733, elector of Saxony, king of Poland (Lo...
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Augustin Ehrensvärd, 1710-1772 (H. Wallin) - Nationalmuseum - 39535
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Augustin Ehrensvärd, 1710-1772, militär, greve (Per Krafft d.ä.) - Nat...
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Autumn (Carl Larsson) - Nationalmuseum - 24343
The figure in 18th century dress pandered to the taste for 18th century scenes that had become fashionable in French salon painting and is also found in other works by Carl Larsson from his Grez period, includi... More
Autumn (Helmer Osslund) - Nationalmuseum - 23420
The large painting Hösten was originally part of a suite of the four seasons that Osslund painted for the leather industry owner Emil A. Matton’s residence in Gävle in 1907. The house was demolished in 1979, bu... More
Autumn, Nordingrå (Helmer Osslund) - Nationalmuseum - 23414
Helmer Osslund is famous for his northern Swedish autumn landscapes. In 1910, he painted this view of the Ångermanälven river from Storberget in Nordingrå. It won a gold medal at the World’s Fair in San Francis... More
Autumn, Varberg (Nils Kreuger) - Nationalmuseum - 21174
In early 1887, Kreuger returned from France, where he had been living for six years. That autumn, he and his wife Bertha moved to Varberg. This view of a rainy street is from the year after and resembles Kreuge... More
Axel Fredrik von Fersen, 1719-1794 (Jakob Björck) - Nationalmuseum - 4...
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Axel Lagrelius, 1863-1944 (Nils von Dardel) - Nationalmuseum - 16267
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Axel Oxenstierna (1583-1654), Count and Chancellor - Nationalmuseum - ...
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Axel Oxenstierna af Södermöre (1583-1654), Count and - Nationalmuseum ...
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Axel Oxenstierna af Södermöre (1583-1654), Count and Chancellor - Nati...
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Axel Oxenstierna af Södermöre (1583-1654), Count and Chancellor - Nati...
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Axel Oxenstierna af Södermöre, 1583-1654 (Johan Gustaf Sandberg) - Nat...
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Axel Oxenstierna af Södermöre, 1583-1654 - Nationalmuseum - 15647
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Baltzar Bogislaus von Platen (Erik Wahlbergson) - Nationalmuseum - 356...
Svenska: Höftbild fas vänster, i uniform med ordnar. Håller höger hand över bord med kartor. I bakgrunden draperi och fondvägg i brungrön ton.