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Painting of men visiting a sculptor's studio with busts, statues, a greyhound, and red drapery, dated 1704.

Visit in a Sculptor's Studio

Balthasar van den Bossche, 1704

Group portrait of five men in dark clerical-style dress with white collars and decorations, set in a gold frame.

Five Famous Contemporaries

Johan Gustaf Sandberg, 1843

Banquet scene with seated diners, servants with pewter plates, a monkey and dog in the foreground, and a landscape view.

The Feast of Anthony and Cleopatra

Leandro Bassano

Seated bare-chested man in red drape with a wooden staff, against a dark rocky background, painted in chiaroscuro.

St John the Baptist

Bartolomeo Manfredi, 1606

Gilded panel painting of Christ crowning the kneeling Virgin Mary, surrounded by haloed angels in an arched frame.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Carlo da Camerino

Group of people gathered at a lamplit table in a dim interior, one woman reading aloud from a paper.

Friends

Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, 1900

Painting of a stormy grey sky over a dark sea, with a small town and pale church tower on the distant shore.

The Town

August Strindberg, 1903

Painting of a riverside town with a long arched stone bridge, church spires, boats on the water and figures in the foreground

View of a Town

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Study painting of a heavenly adoration of the Lamb with angels and kneeling figures, and a crowd with a cross on the right.

The Adoration of the Lamb. Study

Gaspare Diziani

Painting of choppy green sea waves beneath a pale, cloudy sky with thick, loose brushstrokes.

Little Water. Dalarö 1892

August Strindberg, 1892

Oedipus seated in red robes embraces his kneeling daughters in a columned classical hall, with soldiers and mourners around h

The Blind Oedipus Commending his Children to the Gods

Bénigne Gagneraux, 1784

Oval painting of a Stockholm canal with a wooden bridge, a palace facade, a stone lion, and sailing ships.

View of Stockholm

Naive painting of a stylized city with towers and domes, a flowering tree, and a small figure beside a floral border.

Jonah beneath the Gourd

Dark landscape with a stormy sky, a bare tree, a carriage on a road, a castle tower and a boat at left.

Moonlight Landscape

Interior of an art academy with a nude model on a platform, a king in red and blue, and a crowd of men in period dress.

King Gustav III Visits the Academy of Fine Arts 1780

Elias Martin, 1782

Painting of a forest landscape with a large broken tree, cattle, a herdsman, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landskap

Andrea Locatelli

Small oil painting of a rural road scene with a woman and child on a donkey and resting travelers beside a picnic.

Landscape with the Holy Family

Gillis Mostaert, 1573

Watteau painting of a lute player beside seated women and a man in a garden with a statue and trees.

The Love Lesson

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1716

Painting of the Virgin nursing the nude Christ child beneath grapevines, with a rocky landscape and village behind.

Madonna of Humility

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1544

Painting of a village landscape with men sawing a log on a sawhorse in the foreground, thatched cottages and a woman with a c

Landscape with Men Sawing Timber

Gillis Mostaert

Full-length portrait of a standing man in blue coat with gold chain, holding a cane and hat, before a landscape with a church

Anders Mattsson, born 1727, speaker

Per Krafft the Elder, 1750

Painting of a Valkyrie on a galloping black horse, raising a spear amid clouds and ravens, with a golden sky.

Valkyrie

Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1865

Oil portrait of a man in a grey powdered wig, white mantle and lace cravat, wearing gold chain and orders, in a gilded frame.

Claes Ekeblad d.y., 1708-1771

Carl Fredrich Brander

Two women prepare poultry in a kitchen with an owl, candlestick, and platter of birds, painted in 1562 by Pieter Aertsen.

Two Women Cooking

Pieter Aertsen, 1562

Figures gather at a table with coins and an open ledger in a wood-paneled room, depicted in an early sixteenth-century painti

The Rent Receiver's Office

Jan Matsys, 1514

Oval painting of a wooded landscape with rustic figures, cattle beside a pond, and a rocky hillside under cloudy sky.

Landscape with Rustics and Cattle

Elias Martin, 1768

Nude figure of Mercury with winged helmet and caduceus beside a lion, with a fountain and mountains behind him.

Mercury

Hans Baldung Grien

Reclining nude woman with pearls on a terrace, with a fountain, peacock, and harbor city view behind her.

Venus Cythereia

Jan Matsys, 1561

Oval landscape of a white villa beside a river, with grazing cattle, figures on the bank and a sailing boat.

Pope House at Twickenham

Elias Martin, 1773

Black and white oval portrait of a young woman with curly hair, headband, and white blouse with ruffled collar.

Caroline Walter