"Utsikt över Gustaf Adolfs torg med slottet" (View over Gustaf Adolf Plaza and the Royal Palace in Stockholm)
Oil on paper-panel 17.5 x 26.5 cm. Verso inscribed: "Målad af Carl Skånberg och Ernst Josephson den 9 Oktober 1880 från Rydbergs Café".
Provenance
Mrs Ellen Skånberg-Gyllensvärd (Carl Skånberg's widow); private collection.
Exhibitions
Liljevalchs konsthall (Liljevalchs Public Art Gallery), Stockholm, "Ernst Josephson. Minnesutställning", 1951, no. 125 (erroneously catalogued as a watercolour).
Literature
Viggo Loos, "Carl Skånberg", 1947, listed in the catalogue p. 376, no. 247.
More information
This lot, capturing the view from what was then Rydberg's Café, was executed in collaboration with the artist Ernst Josephson according to information provided by the artist Richard Bergh (friend of the other two painters and Director of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 1915-1919).
