Carl Gustaf Pilo, 1793 - The Coronation of King Gustav III of Sweden. Uncompleted - fine art print

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English: The central figure in the painting is King Gustav III. He is wearing his white coronation costume that seems almost to radiate light. A crown is in the process of being placed on his head by the senior member of the State Council together with Archbishop Beronius. To the left are the nobility, above them the burghers, behind the throne are the priests and on the far right the farmers. The coronation scene is bathed in misty, blue-grey sunlight and the painting is dominated by tones of deep green and grey-brown. The bottom right-hand corner of the painting is bare. The canvas is visible as are some boldly sketched lines. In places the paint seems bubbly and dried up into a leathery, grey-black layer. In spite of this, many people consider the coronation picture to be one of the greatest masterpieces of Swedish art. It is the work of the then director of the Academy of Fine Arts, the court painter Carl-Gustav Pilo. He can be seen among the farmers on the right at the top of the painting. He is the rotund gentleman offering his friend and colleague Elias Martin a pinch of snuff. In the other hand he holds a silver cane. Pilo grounded the canvas with a yellow-brown coating on which he sketched the figures and the various spaces. To give the parts in shadow a deeper tone he filled these in with a thin layer of asphalt. It is because of the asphalt that the painting today appears bubbly and viscous. The painting has been exposed to the sun or to another source of heat which has caused the asphalt to blister and the paint to move. At certain points the undercoating has forced its way up through the covering layers of paint. The face, for example, had been doubled. When Pilo had been working on the painting for more than ten years, Gustav III was murdered at the opera and in the following years of 1793, Pilo himself died. The painting had not been completed. Generations of visitors have been fascinated by the coronation painting. Bildens centralgestalt är kung Gustav III. Här klädd i vit kröningsdräkt, som nästan verkar stråla av ljus. Kronan placeras just på hans huvud av äldsta riksrådet Adam Horn och ärkebiskop Beronius. Det är den 29 maj 1772 och Storkyrkan i Stockholm är fylld till bredden. Riksdagens fyra stånd är alla representerade. Till vänster står adeln, ovanför dem borgarna, bakom tronen präster och längst till höger bönder. Kröningsscenen är inbäddad i ett disigt, gråblått solljus och djupt gröna och gråbruna färgtoner dominerar. Det nedre högra hörnet av målning är bart. Duken syns och på den några kraftiga skissartade linjer. Färgen verkar dessutom bubblig och på flera ställen hoptorkad till en seg gråsvart beläggning. Trots detta uppfattas Kröningstavlan av många som ett av svensk konsts stora mästerverk. Den är målad av konstakademins dåvarande direktör, hovmålaren Carl-Gustav Pilo. Man ser honom bland bönderna, längst upp till höger. En rundlagd man som bjuder sin vän och konstnärskollega Elias Martin på snus. I andra handen håller han en silverkrycka. Pilo började med att ge duken en gulbrun undermålning på vilken han löst tecknade upp figurer och rumsbildning. För att ge de skuggade partierna en djupare klang fyllde han i dessa med ett tunt lager asfalt. Och det är på grund av asfalten som färgen idag ser bubblig och rinnig ut. Målningen har exponerats för solljus eller annan värme som gjort att asfalten kokat och färgen börjat glida. På vissa ställen har den underliggande färgen dessutom trängt igenom övermålningen så att till exempel ansikten blivit fördubblade. Pilo hade arbetat på tavlan i nästa tio år när Gustav III sköts på Operan 1792. Året därefter 1793 dog Pilo själv. Målningen var då ofullbordad. Generationer av besökare har genom åren fascinerats av den.

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This over 220 year old painting was created by the male Swedish painter Carl Gustaf Pilo. The 220 year old artpiece measures the size: Height: 293 cm (115,3 ″); Width: 531 cm (17,4 ft) Framed: Height: 318 cm (10,4 ft); Width: 558 cm (18,3 ft); Depth: 14 cm (5,5 ″). It can be viewed in in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm's digital collection, which is Sweden's museum of art and design, a Swedish government authority with a mandatet o preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art. With courtesy of - Nationalmuseum Stockholm & Wikimedia Commons (public domain license).: . On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a ratio of 16 : 9, which implies that the length is 78% longer than the width. The painter Carl Gustaf Pilo was a European artist from Sweden, whose style can mainly be attributed to Rococo. The artist was born in the year 1711 in Nyköping and passed away at the age of 82 in 1793 in Stockholm, Stockholm county, Sweden.

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