Anders Zorn’s painting Omnibus was executed in Paris in the 1890s. Zorn travelled regularly by omnibus from his home in Montmartre, merely to study the passengers. As the bus rolled through the city, the light changed constantly inside. Electric streetlights had recently been installed in Paris – and the mixture of artificial and natural light created new and unexpected effects that Zorn tried to capture on canvas. Contemporary critics described Omnibus as “ultra-modern”.