What happend behind the walls?

Suddenly I discovered something odd and peculiar when working on the reconstruction of the 1906 display? Why are Young Boy Peeling a Pear by Édouard Manet and Talking in the Twighlight by another French painter, Lucien Simon, centrally displayed in the Gallery destined for the Swedish and Nordic schools from the same period? Of course there could be pure practical and pragmatic answer to the question due to the rather poor representation of late nineteenth century French paintings in the Nationalmuseum collection by this time. But I can ´t help wondering what kind of interpretations this presentation raised. For the scholars and connoisseurs it must have been questioned and discussed. How did it fit the art historical narrative built on nationalities and schools? But for the ordinary bourgeois audience it probably passed unnoticed.  Hopefully the 3D modeling would bring some new information and guidance to understand the curatorial motives behind the gallery walls.