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Swedish paintings

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Death playing chess

mural by Albertus Pictor

painting by Sofie Ribbing

The Dying Dandy

painting by Nils von Dardel

Vädersolstavlan

) is an oil-on-panel painting depicting a halo display, an atmospheric optical phenomenon, observed over Stockholm on 20 April 1535. It is named after the sun dogs () appearing on the upper right part of the painting. While chiefly noted for being the oldest depiction of Stockholm in colour, it is arguably also the oldest Swedish landscape painting and the oldest depiction of sun dogs.

painting by August Strindberg

Dancing Fairies

painting by August Malmström

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom

painting by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist

Thor's Fight with the Giants

1872 Norse mythology painting by Mårten Eskil Winge