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Vädersolstavlan
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Key facts
- Painting.image_file
- Vädersoltavlan cropped.JPG
- Painting.title
- Vädersolstavlan
- Painting.artist
- Urban målare, Jacob Elbfas
- Painting.year
- 1535, 1636
- Painting.medium
- Oil-on-panel
- Painting.height_metric
- 163
- Painting.width_metric
- 110
- Painting.metric_unit
- cm
- Painting.height_imperial
- 64
- Painting.width_imperial
- 43
- Painting.imperial_unit
- in
- Painting.city
- Stockholm
- Painting.museum
- Storkyrkan
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Article
20 sectionsContents
- Painting
- Possible prototypes
- 17th-century copy and modern restorations
- History
- Background
- Events
- Censorship
- Historic icon
- Medieval Stockholm
- Storkyrkan church and Tre Kronor castle
- Riddarholmen
- Helgeandsholmen
- Southern city gate
- Defensive structures
- Other buildings and surrounding ridges
- Halo display
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
) 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.
The original painting, which was produced shortly after the event and traditionally attributed to Urban målare ("Urban [the] Painter"), is lost, and virtually nothing is known about it. However, a copy from 1636 by Jacob Heinrich Elbfas held in Storkyrkan in Stockholm is believed to be an accurate copy and was until recently erroneously thought to be the restored original. It was previously covered by layers of brownish varnish, and the image was hardly discernible until carefully restored and thoroughly documented in 1998–1999.