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Painting of an imagined classical harbour with temple columns, a triumphal arch, boats and figures under a glowing sky.

Harbour with Capriccio

Alessandro Salucci

Painting of a forest edge with tall trees, a dirt path with travelers and horses, and a distant plain under clouds.

At the Edge of the Forest

Lodewijk de Vadder

Flowerpiece with an urn of mixed blooms, a pink ewer, fruit, and a green parrot on a marble ledge.

Flowerpiece with Vases and a Parrot

Antoine Monnoyer

Painted architectural interior with a broad stone staircase, arched colonnades, and small figures working on wooden scaffoldi

Stairwell in a Renaissance House

Michele Marieschi

Oil painting of the Holy Family: a sleeping nude infant, a woman in a blue headscarf, a bearded man, and a girl holding roses

The Holy Family

Michael Dahl, 1691

Painting of a sailing ship wrecked on rocky coast in stormy seas, with sunlit clouds and small figures on the shore.

Gale on the Bohuslän Coast

Marcus Larson, 1857

Painting of an arched courtyard with classical columns, a grand staircase, a balcony, and small figures with a dog.

Courtyard in a Renaissance House

Michele Marieschi

Painting of a sailing ship wrecked in stormy surf beside a rocky shore, with figures on the rocks under dark clouds.

Shipwreck

Kilian Zoll / Marcus Larson, 1853

Painting of sailing ships and a rowboat on rough sea near a rocky cliff under dramatic clouds.

Bark Beating to Windward at Kullaberg

Marcus Larson, 1849

Painting of a lake under a golden evening sky, with hills, forest, fields and bare trees in the foreground.

Summer Night. Study

Painting of soldiers carrying a body on a stretcher through snowy cliffs, with a blue banner and a hunter watching on the lef

Bringing Home the Body of King Karl XII of Sweden

Gustaf Cederström, 1884

Painting of a turbulent waterfall over rocky cliffs under a dark storm sky, with pine trees and a distant lake.

Rocky Landscape with Waterfall

Marcus Larson, 1859

Elevated view of winding blue lakes, dark forests, small sailboats and red buildings under a pale cloudy sky.

Over Forest and Lake

Otto Hesselbom, 1908

Painting of a calm lake shore with reeds, a white-sailed boat near wooden posts, and a cloudy sky.

The Shore at Ringsjön II

Gustaf Rydberg, 1879

Painting of classical ruins with arches, a golden chariot, a winged figure and a distant town under a cloudy sky.

Cleobis and Biton

Thomas Blanchet

Sketch of a crowd in period dress before a Gothic church and gabled houses, with a flag at left, in brown washes.

Archery Feast in Antwerp in the 16th Century

Jan August Hendrik Leys

Painting of a muddy country road with a horse-drawn cart, bare trees, melting snow and a cloudy sky.

Spring in Skåne

Gustaf Rydberg, 1868

Painting of a stormy sea where a wrecked ship lies near a cliff, with figures on a rope and survivors climbing rocks.

Shipwreck

Pierre-Jacques Volaire

Painting of a thatched farmhouse with weathered wooden walls, a stone wall, and a tree beside it in a dirt yard.

Farmhouse

Jan August Hendrik Leys

Elderly couple at a laden dining table with fruit, roast fowl and bread, with a city street visible behind them.

Double Portrait of an Elderly Couple

Lucas van Valckenborch

Painting of the Judgement of Paris: three nude goddesses in a landscape, Mercury, cupids with wreaths, and armour on the grou

The Judgement of Paris

Hans von Aachen

Family group portrait: a seated man writing at a table with his wife, mother, children and a sleeping toddler, ghostly faces

C.J. Lagercrantz, Assessor, and his Family

Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg

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

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

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

Little Water. Dalarö 1892

August Strindberg, 1892

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

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

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

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

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

Black and white view of a forest scene where nymphs flee from bearded satyrs beside a stream, with dogs and a dead deer.

Diana and her Nymphs surprised by Satyrs

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

Painted interior of a Gothic church with tall pillars, vaulted ceilings, and figures in dark and red clothing on a tiled floo

Interior of a Gothic Church

Pieter Neefs the Elder, 1604

Painting of an elderly man embraced by a young woman and an older woman, with a parrot, gold coins and fruit on a table.

The Ill-matched Pair

Jan Matsys, 1566

Two women sit beside fruit and gourds in a classical garden with ruined arches, columns and a draping grapevine.

Vertumnus och Pomona

Painting of the Virgin presenting the infant Christ to a bearded high priest in a temple with columns and onlookers.

The Presentation in the Temple

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Painting of a merry company of musicians and revelers around a table with fruit in a richly furnished interior.

A Merry Company

Watercolor of a crowded ceremonial procession in a grand basilica interior with columns, altar, and armoured guards.

Gustavus III Attending Christmas Mass in 1783, in St Peter's, Rome

Louis Jean Desprez

Black and white view of Palatine Hill in Rome, with ruined walls, cypress trees, rooftops and clouds under a broad sky.

Evening in Rome. Motif from the Palatine

Henrik Jespersen, 1898

Painting of a cavalry battle with rearing horses, sword-wielding riders, smoke, and a fallen figure in white at center.

Death of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden at the Battle of Lützen

Carl Wahlbom, 1855

Painting of tall sailing warships in a smoky naval battle under a stormy sky, with blue flags and crowded decks.

Swedish flagship Gustaf III after the Battle of Hogland 1788

Louis Jean Desprez, 1794

Oil landscape of a Norwegian valley with a snowy mountain, birch trees, grazing cows, a farmhouse and a fjord.

Landscape. Motif from the Numme Valley in Norway

Joachim Frich, 1850

Panoramic battle painting with cavalry, cannon fire, advancing infantry under a white banner, and a wide cloudy sky.

The Battle of Dennewitz, September 6, 1813

Alexander Wetterling, 1842

Painting of nude sea gods feasting on seafood around a ship, with a lobster on a shell, sea horses and a crowded sea.

The Feast of the Seagods

Frans Floris, 1561

Oil painting of Christ raising a figure from an open tomb while a crowd of onlookers watches in a hilly landscape.

The Raising of Lazarus

Scarsellino, 1650

Painting of a penitent Magdalen with bare shoulder, hands resting on a skull, looking upward in a dark setting.

The Penitent Magdalen

Cecco del Caravaggio

Kitchen scene with women preparing meat and game birds beside classical columns, a seated man and a hanging turkey.

Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1565

Mural of a midwinter pagan ritual in a timber hall, with a priest, a nude sacrificial figure, warriors and a pine tree.

Midvinterblot

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns before a seated Pilate with a basin, flanked by armored soldiers in a dim interior.

Christ before Pilate

Andrea Schiavone, 1550

Painting of a crowded naval battle with sailing warships, gunsmoke, rowing boats and an explosion under dramatic clouds.

Slaget vid Svensksund den 9 juli 1790

Johan Tietrich Schoultz, 1792

Painting of Venus on a sea chariot with nymphs, tritons, cherubs and billowing drapery over churning waves.

The Triumph of Venus

François Boucher, 1740

Painted landscape with a tall tree on the left, a rocky cliff on the right, a winding road with small figures, and a cloudy s

Landscape with a Cliff

Alessio de Marchis

Painting of a battle with mounted warriors, archers and banners in a forest, and kneeling figures on a hill above.

Joshua Defeating Amalek

Pauwels Casteels, 1640

Painting of a palace on a waterfront with sailing ships, rowboats, a wooded bank, figures and a faint rainbow.

Drottningholms slott

Painted landscape with a rocky hill, a tree, figures on a path, and a tall tower in the distance under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Tower

Alessio de Marchis

Painting of a crowded medieval city square with armored soldiers, townspeople, treasure chests, and a red-draped platform.

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361

Carl Gustaf Hellqvist, 1882

Painting of a fox sitting before a glass flask with a heron bending toward it, another heron by reeds, and a cottage behind.

The Fox Visiting the Heron

Winter sunset over a frozen waterway with moored sailing boats, figures on the ice, and a town along the shore.

The Stockholm Stream in Wintertime

Johan Kristian Berger, 1850

Interior scene with a man playing mandolin on a sofa and another man in a chair with his face covered by his hand.

Gravity. Interior

Peter Alfred Schou, 1890

Painting of a group of oak trees in a meadow under a yellow and blue evening sky with distant hills.

Ekar, aftonstämning

Gunnar Gunnarsson Wennerberg, 1899

Painted landscape of waterfalls cascading past a ruined stone building on a hill, with a wide plain under a blue sky.

Landscape Near Tivoli. Study

Joseph Magnus Stäck, 1844

Painting of St Mark's Square in Venice with the campanile, arcaded buildings and a crowd of figures in cloaks.

Piazza San Marco in Venice

Pastoral landscape with resting cattle, sheep and a shepherd couple, a castle on a hill and distant mountains under a cloudy

Landscape with Resting Cattle

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1767

Painting of snowy jagged mountains above rough green sea waves, a sailboat on the horizon, and dark storm clouds.

From Nordland

Oil painting of a sunlit meadow with a dense tree line, a grazing horse, and a pale blue sky with clouds.

Landscape

Christen Dalsgaard, 1849

Painting of a castle on a cliff above a waterfall, with peasants and pack animals on a dirt path in the foreground.

Landscape with Waterfall, Castle and Peasants

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1767

Painted procession with soldiers on horseback, a gilded chariot, oxen, red banners, and a walled city behind mountains.

A Roman Triumph

Master of Marradi

Saint Jerome kneels penitent in a rocky landscape with a lion, crucifix, skull and books, with a bishop and child nearby.

The Penitent St Jerome

Jacopo da Sellaio

Black and white reproduction of two cows resting under a tree in a pastoral landscape with distant hills.

Two Cows Resting

Pieter van Bloemen

Muted beach under a grey cloudy sky, with a horse-drawn cart and a figure moving along the shoreline by the sea.

Hazy Weather by the Sea

Harvested field with conical haystacks in front of a village of red-roofed houses and windmills under a pale sky.

Önninge Village, Åland

Anna Wengberg, 1888

Monochrome painting of resting cattle under a tree with a herdsman and sheep in a pastoral landscape.

Cattle Resting

Pieter van Bloemen

Calm sea under a pink and golden sunset sky, with sunlight glimmering on the water and a thin band of clouds.

Sea in Sunset

Painting of elegant figures playing cards in a gilded interior, with a bowing gentleman greeting a woman at the door.

Card-Party in the Home of Elis Schröderheim

Pehr Hilleström

Painting of cattle, soldiers on horseback, and a woman and child at a stream, with wagons crossing a bridge under cloudy skie

Landscape with Peasants, Soldiers and Cattle

Pieter van Bloemen

Painting of a rutted dirt path through dry winter fields lined with bare shrubs and trees under a pale sky.

The Path

Janus la Cour, 1896

Painting of a man playing piano while a standing woman sings, with candles, yellow flowers and a green curtain.

Edvard Grieg accompanying his Wife

P.S. Krøyer, 1898

Painting of Noah's ark beneath a double rainbow, with an angel, animals, and a crowd of figures on a flooded landscape.

The Ark

Painting of an allegory with Cupid, revelers with grape leaves, an armored woman, doves and nude children in a landscape.

Allegory of the Temptations of Youth

Otto van Veen, 1595

Men rest on a sandy beach at dusk while a standing figure looks out over calm sea; a boat and lighthouse appear.

Summer Evening on the Beach at Skagen

P.S. Krøyer, 1884

Painting of a boisterous tavern party with revelers, flowers and wine, and a floating partly nude woman above the crowd.

Apotheosis

Ivar Arosenius, 1906

Painting of two seated recruiting sergeants at a table and a hesitant young recruit standing in a vaulted stone room.

Recruiting Sergeants

Gustaf Cederström, 1879

Painting of a nude woman seated on a rock by a stream with a golden serpent beside her in a lush paradise landscape.

Eva i Paradiset eller Ormen i Paradiset

Joakim Skovgaard, 1911

Still life of dead pheasant and hares beside a silver tureen on a carpet, with a wicker basket and marble urn behind.

Still Life with Dead Game and a Silver Tureen on a Turkish Carpet

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1738