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Art Bulletin of

NationalmuseumStockholm

Volume OM

The Joy of Giving

Eva QvibergChair, The Friends of the Nationalmuseum

Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm,is published with generous support from theFriends of the Nationalmuseum.

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Items in the Acquisitions section are listedalphabetically by artists’ names, except in the caseof applied arts items, which are listed in order oftheir inventory numbers. Measurements are incentimetres – Height H, Breadth B, Depth D,Length L, Width W, and Diameter Diam.– except for those of drawings and prints, whichare given in millimetres.

Cover IllustrationAlexander Roslin (NTNUÓNTVP), The Artist and hisWife Marie Suzanne Giroust Portraying HenrikWilhelm Peill, NTST. Oil on canvas, NPN ñ VUKR cm.Donated by the Friends of the Nationalmuseum,Sophia Giesecke Fund, Axel Hirsch Fundand Mr Stefan Persson and Mrs Denise Persson.Nationalmuseum, åã TNQNK

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PhotographsNatinalmuseum Photographic Studio/LinnAhlgren, Erik Cornelius, Anna Danielsson,Cecilia Heisser, Bodil Karlsson, Per-Åke Persson,Sofia Persson and Hans Thorwid.

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Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum is publishedannually and contains articles on the historyand theory of art relating to the collections ofthe Nationalmuseum.

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The Joy of Giving

Eva QvibergChair, The Friends of the Nationalmuseum

Nicolas Régnier (NRVNÓNSST), Sleeper Awakened by a Young Woman with Fire. Oil on canvas, NMN ñ NPP cm. Purchased with funds donated by the Friends of theNationalmuseum on their centennial OMNN. Nationalmuseum, åã TMTTK

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qÜÉ cêáÉåÇë of the Nationalmuseumhave continued, in their second century, toperform what is their most important role:purchasing works of art for the National-museum. Since the organisation’s incep-tion in NVNN, we have been by far thelargest donor to the Museum. The reasonthe Friends came into being was the Na-tionalmuseum’s lack of resources for ac-quiring art objects – a state of affairs whichunfortunately remains unchanged to thisday. More than a hundred years of commit-ment, risk-taking and generosity mean thatvisitors are able to enjoy a Nationalmuseumwith considerably more objects than wouldhave been the case without the gifts madeby our organisation.

Thanks to the income from the capitalaccumulated in our funds and founda-tions, the Friends of the Nationalmuseumhave been able to contribute a substantialsum towards the purchase of the NUth-cen-tury master Alexander Roslin’s painting ofhimself and his wife Marie SuzanneGiroust portraying Henrik Wilhelm Peill(see article on p. NT). Between them, theBarbro and Henry Montgomery Endow-ment, the Gustav VI Adolf Fund, the MaxDinkelspiel Fund, the Brita and NilsFredrik Tisell Endowment, the Marit andHerbert Bexelius Fund and the Axel Me-lander Endowment Fund Foundation con-tributed a total of SEK SIQMMIMMM. TheFriends’ involvement was a crucial factor insecuring this acquisition.

In the winter of OMNPLNQ, the National-museum’sHans Gedda exhibition, with a his-torical commentary entitled Masters of Dark-ness, was shown at the Royal Swedish Acade-my of Fine Arts (see articles on pp. NMN andNMR. Several of the royal portraits in theGedda display were a gift from the Friendsto HM The King on his SMth birthday. Mas-ters of Darkness, which presented a selectionof the Museum’s fine collection of Car-avaggisti, included the painting Sleeper Awak-ened by a Young Woman with Fire, by NicolasRégnier. It was given to the Nationalmuse-um to mark the Friends’ centenary in OMNNK

Nationalmuseum curator Linda Hinnerswas the holder of the Friends’ centenary-year research scholarship. Based on her doc-toral thesis, on “French Sculptors andPainters at the Royal Palace in StockholmNSVPÓNTNP: Roles, contexts and practices”,she gave members an in situ talk about theFrench artists and craftsmen involved in theinterior decoration of the palace around theturn of the NUth century.

For a good many years, scholarshipsfrom the Friends of the Nationalmuseumhave provided welcome support for re-search, study travel and the like for the Mu-seum’s curators. In OMNP the Max Dinkel-spiel Fund contributed SEK NMMIMMM, divid-ed between two research scholarships. Trav-el grants totalling SEK VMIMMM were provid-ed from the Axel Melander EndowmentFund. In addition, the Theodor AhrenbergEndowment and the Sten WesterbergMemorial Fund contributed travel fundingof SEK ORIMMM each.

The Friends of the Nationalmuseumand its members take great pleasure andsatisfaction in being able to contribute to-wards purchases of artworks for the Muse-um, and in the opportunities our scholar-ships offer staff to further develop their ex-pertise in their respective fields. We aremost grateful when the wealth of knowl-edge that exists within the Nationalmuse-um can be shared with our membersthrough our travel programme and on oth-er occasions. Such encounters between in-dividual members and representatives ofthe Museum will, we hope, form the basisfor a continuing and deeper exchange inthe future.

The Bengt Julin Fund, with its focus on ap-plied art and design, has as usual helped toaugment the Nationalmuseum’s collectionsin this field (see article on p. QT). Amongthe gifts it has made possible, mention maybe made of a silver dish titled A Body of Workby Åsa Lockner, Petronella Eriksson’s silverjug Next Time I Will Be a Tree, and Bulb IVOMNO, a one-off piece in blown glass by AnnWåhlström.

Under our constitution, one of the ob-jectives of the Friends is to promote and en-hance interest in the Nationalmuseum andits activities among members and the gen-eral public. We therefore offer our mem-bership of around RIMMM a rich and well-de-veloped programme of guided tours, lec-tures, outings and foreign travel. The aim isto give members opportunities to extendtheir horizons, as knowledge often begetsan interest in more knowledge.

The Nationalmuseum’s exhibition CarlLarsson: Friends & Enemies was naturally ofinterest to many of our members (see arti-cle on p. VT). In OMNPI the Friends also vis-ited exhibitions at Prins Eugens Waldemar-sudde for example, enjoyed a combinedtour of Gustav III’s Museum of Antiquitiesand the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, whichformed part of the Castles Series alongwith a trip to Läckö Castle, and much morebesides. We visited such widely differingplaces as the De Geer Palace – the FinnishAmbassador’s residence – and the studioof silversmith Sebastian Schildt. Our springoutings are always much appreciated, andin OMNP the Friends visited Höja and Göks-bo manors.

During the year the Friends of the Na-tionalmuseum also travelled further afield,including to the Netherlands, to Oslo onthe occasion of the Edvard Munch anniver-sary, to Paris to follow the Museum’s collec-tions out into the world, and to Canada.For OMNQ, several trips are planned to mu-seums where members will be able to studyobjects lent by the Nationalmuseum for avariety of exhibitions.

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