Charles XV’s ‘Norwegian landscape’ in the Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala

• Autores: Eva-Charlotta Mebius
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 166, Nº 1456, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Art of Northern Europe), págs. 696-703
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • King Charles XV of Sweden, who was also Charles IV of Norway, was a talented landscape artist who exhibited his paintings internationally. One of his canvases, painted in 1857, is here identified as a view of Romsdalen. This choice of subject may be a result of the landscape's associations with a historic conflict between Norway and Sweden and hopes for their paceful union, as well as the king's interest in the art of Thomas Fearnley