With Carlos at the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts (Stockholm)

The sculpture and painting gallery


A very happy lion in a golden frame


Carlos looking at Rodin


A transparent couple, detail from the painting "Venus or Flora" by Jan Massys (1561)


The lips of the critic sealed by Degas, detail from the painting "Portrait of Art Critic Durand Gréville" by Edgar Degas


The golden shower, detail from the painting "Danai receiving the shower of gold" by Adolph Ulrik Wertmiillr (1787)


The amazing moonbow of Caspar David Friedrich, "Landscape with Lunar Rainbow" by Caspar David Friedrich


The unfinished and mysterious coronation painting by Pilo, deatail of "The coronation of Kinf Gustav III" (1782-93) by Carl Gustaf Pilo


Many years after his coronation King Gustav III asked the artist Pilo to do a painting depicting the coronation. The artist refused because he was not present at the coronation, but the king convinced him after some time. Pilo worked on the painting for 10 years. The strange chiaroscuro effects are there partly because the artist experimented with asphalt, in reaction with daylight makes the different layers and retouches visible after a time. But Pilo was the known as the “painter of light” and of course inspired by the light effects in Rembrandts Claudius Civilis that could be seen in Stockholm from 1766 and on. In 1792 Gustav III was shot at the Opera House in a break at a performance and died after a couple of weeks. The artist Pilo died in 1793, he inserted his selfportrait in the painting but never finalized it (Witty synthesis by Cecilia Widenheim).