The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the painting, read directly for this entry. Its strength is a well referenced catalogue record: artist, year, medium, dimensions, holding museum and its acquisition, plus a period account of its reception. Its limit is that it is not independently peer reviewed, so it is cited here for corroborated catalogue and reception detail rather than for closer critical framing of the movement it belongs to, which the DailyArt Magazine essay supplies instead.
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A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article rather than an authored or peer reviewed work, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations, useful for verifiable factual detail rather than as independent scholarly authority. NotesRead directly. Cited for the painting's artist, Marten Eskil Winge; its 1872 completion; oil on canvas medium at 484 by 333 centimeters; its depiction of Thor riding his goat drawn chariot, the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjostr, wielding his hammer Mjolnir wreathed in lightning and wearing his belt Megingjord, battling the jotnar; its purchase by King Charles XV of Sweden in 1872 and bequest to Nationalmuseum, Stockholm on his death that same year; its immediate popular success when exhibited, with visitors reportedly queuing for hours; and the young August Strindberg's period praise of the work as depicting truth's struggle against falsehood.
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