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Table Clock with Caesar/Napoleon and Table Clock with Henri IV of France. Photo: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum.

New acquisition: French figurative table clocks

Nationalmuseum has recently acquired several significant French figurative table clocks dating from the early 19th century. These were an obligatory feature of the interior decoration style that developed during the Empire period, adorning many a mantelpiece and console table

Otto Hesselbom: Our Land. Motif from Dalsland, 1902. Photo: Nationalmuseum.

Ideal and Reality – Nordic Nature opens 1 June at Nationalmuseum Jamtli

This summer, Nationalmuseum Jamtli presents Ideal and Reality – Nordic Nature, an exhibition showing how nature has been depicted in art and applied art through the ages. The exhibition features some 130 works, paintings, drawings, photographs and applied art, all drawn from Nationalmuseum’s collections.

Anna Boberg, Northern Lights. Study from North Norway. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum. Lennart Nilsson, Gustaf V (1858-1950), king of Sweden, 1950. Photo: Lennart Nilsson Photography/TT Nyhetsbyrån.

Exhibitions – Summer 2022

During the summer you can see exhibitions produced by Nationalmuseum at tourist destinations throughout Sweden.

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme: Tyrolean Landscape with Naudersberg Castle, 1847. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.

Oehme landscape acquired by Nationalmuseum

Nationalmuseum has acquired a painting by the German artist Ernst Ferdinand Oehme. Tyrolean Landscape with Naudersberg Castle, dating from 1847, represents an aspect of German Romanticism that was previously absent in the museum’s collection.

Agnes de Frumerie, The Grandmother, 1905. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum.

Nationalmuseum acquires works by women sculptors

Over the past few years, Nationalmuseum has made a concerted effort to acquire more works by women sculptors. This acquisition drive was part of a wider project to gather knowledge and shed light on the Swedish women sculptors who were active at the turn of the 20th century.

Ditlev Blunck: Allegory of Sunday, 1841. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.

Nationalmuseum acquires Ditlev Blunck painting

Nationalmuseum has acquired Allegory of Sunday, a rediscovered work by the Danish-German artist Ditlev Blunck. This the first time the painting has changed ownership since it was produced in 1841.

Greta Fahlcrantz-Lindberg, Portrait of Märtha Gahn, 1920. Photo: Erik Cornelius/Nationalmuseum.

Swedish Grace opens at Nationalmuseum 24 February

This spring’s exhibition, Swedish Grace, presents art, design, film and fashion from the 1920s. It is a period of transition that laid the foundations of modern society and an era full of tensions across the artistic spectrum.

Théodore Rousseau, A Pond in the Forest. La Mare aux Evées, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1840s. Photo: Cecilia Heisser.

Nationalmuseum acquires Rousseau landscape

Nationalmuseum has acquired a landscape painting of the Forest of Fontainebleau by Théodore Rousseau, believed to date from the 1840s. Rousseau was one of the most headstrong and innovative members of the French school of artists who took their name from the village of Barbizon and are considered the forerunners of the Impressionists.

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