New Acquisition: A Hunting Still Life by Jan Weenix

Jan Weenix, Still life with a dead swan, a peacock and a dog next to a fountain, 1684.Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.

The Nationalmuseum has acquired a large, masterfully executed game still life dating from 1684 by the Dutch Baroque painter Jan Weenix. The painting represents dead game placed next to a sculpted fountain in the shape of a putto. The canvas formerly belonged to the Swedish diplomat and collector Karl Bergsten and has now been reunited with those parts of his extensive art collection previously in the museum’s holdings.

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, A Study for Hercules, in three-quarter-length, 1640s.
Photographer / Source  Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum

The Nationalmuseum has acquired a red-chalk figure study for a Hercules, in three-quarter-length from the 1640s by the Italian Baroque artist Guercino. The drawing that in the 18^th century belonged to the Swedish diplomat and art collector Count Carl Gustaf Tessin has thus been reunited with the main part of his drawings collection in the museum’s holdings. 

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Lars Bohman Gallery: 

Last week for Helena Blomqvists exhibition Florentine
The show runs through April 24.

Daybed Portrait 1963, 2016
Fine Art Print
108 x 130 cm

Observingarts: The Nationalmuseum of Sweden has acquired a nude by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Nationalmuseum has acquired a nude by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, a central figure in the art history of the Danish Golden Age. Eckersberg renewed a traditional genre by painting nudes in natural daylight, such as the acquired work. Nationalmuseum has also acquired a second nude and an idyllic interior scene of a mother and child by a window, both painted by Eckersberg’s pupil Ludvig August Smith.

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Observingarts: Nationalmuseum Sweden, New acquisition: Study of a man in Turkish dress by Amalia Lindegren

Amalia Lindegren, Study of a man in Turkish dress, 1854. 

Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.

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useum has acquired a study of a man in Turkish dress by Amalia Lindegren, a significant addition to the museum’s collection of works by female artists. The painting was a prize in a Christmas lottery run by the Swedish Association for Art in 1854 and was won by Fredrik Bergwall, a manufacturer from Norrköping. Until now, it has remained in his family’s possession.