Sunday, October 21, 2018

Eye candies at the Sweden’s Nationalmuseum

After a five-year refurbishment Sweden’s Nationalmuseum, the country’s biggest museum of art and design, finally reopened on 13 October in Stockholm.


Carl Larsson, (1853 -1919)  - "Gustav Vasa enters Stockholm year 1523" - in the hall of the central staircase in Nationalmuseum


Carl Larsson - Midvinterblot (Swedish for "Midwinter sacrifice")  


Giovanni Battista Recco (c.1631-16769  Still life with fish and oysters (1653)


Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, (1751-1811)
Queen Marie Antoinette of France with two of her children walking in the park of Trianon (1785)


Cabinet c. 1650, Unknown, Flemish


Joos de Momper (1564-1635)
Skipwreck of the Greek Fleet on the Voyage Home from Troy (fragment)


Melchior de Hondecoeter (1636-1695)
Still life with birds and gears in a niche c. 1663



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