Interiors

The interior is the image of the room where people live, work and think. From Vermeer’s light-filled kitchens to Hammershøi’s empty doorways and Carl Larsson’s Sundborn, pictures of interiors speak of light, intimacy, status and what a home is.

• Painted walls and the first rooms
• Van Eyck’s mirror and the scholar’s study
• Dutch light: Vermeer, de Hooch and the whitewashed churches
• Las Meninas, salons and Hilleström’s Sweden
• Romantic windows and Golden Age studios
• Modern rooms: Manet, Vuillard, Matisse and Hopper
• China: screens, feasts and women in the palace
• Japan: rooms without roofs and the beauty of shadow
• The Nordic home: Carl Larsson, Hammershøi and Harriet Backer