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Room IX., a small apartment containing casts and models by
Sergei and other Swedish sculptors.
The Collection of Furniture (Rooms X-XIV.), which we next
enter, removed hither from the palace at Ulriksdal (p. 347), is
arranged in a series of rooms and cabinets, according to the various
styles. In the eleventh room, the ornamental furniture (chiefly of
Italian origin) should be noticed, especially two large *Cabinets in
ebony. Room XIII. contains Objects in Metat and Carvings in Wood,
Ivory, and Amber; also four apartments in the style of the 17th
cent., comprising chiefly German furniture. Three detached presses
in this room contain the Collection of Glass Room XIV. contains
a collection of watches and two apartments with German furniture
of the 17th, and Dutch rococo furniture of the 18th century.
On the left side of Room X. is a door leading to the sunken floor,
containing the small Egyptian Collection (adm. Tues. and Frid., 11-3).
Another marble staircase ascends to the —
Second Floor, nearly the whole of which is occupied by the
picture-gallery.
The *Gallery of Ancient Masters was formed chiefly during
last century. In 1750 the palaces and chateaux of Stockholm
contained 330 of these pictures. The collection was greatly enriched
by Queen Louisa Ulrica, a sister of Frederick the Great, with the
aid of Count Carl G. Tessin, the Swedish ambassador at Paris
(173942), whose own collection she purchased. Her son Gustavus III.
followed in her footsteps. From that period date in particular the
interesting series of decorative paintings of the French School,
and also the best Netherlandish works. The Italian pictures
consist of the Murtelli Collection, purchased at Rome in 1798, and
smaller collections purchased at a later date. More recently the
gallery has been enriched by presentations from patriotic societies
and private donors. .
The majority of the German, Spanish, and Italian works are of
little value, but the French school of last century is better
represented here than in any other gallery out of Paris. To this
department belong a number of valuable large works by Desportes,
Oudry, Boucher, and Natoire, and several cabinet-pieces by
Chardin and Lancret. — Several of the best Dutch masters of the 17th
cent, are also represented by admirable works : Rembrandt by his
‘Ziska’, a ‘Cook’, and several portraits, Rubens by his two copies
from Titian, and Snyders, Jordaens, Fyt, C. de Vos, Steen,
Ochter-velt, Hooch, Wynants, Wouwerman, Dou, Van Goyen, J. van
Ruys-dael, aud Ostade by pictures of great merit. The gallery also
possesses a number of interesting works by rare masters, the value of
which is chiefly historical. — Critical Catalogue by G. Göthe (3 kr.).
Each picture bears the name of its painter.
The entrance to the Ante-Room from the staircase is flanked
by two antique columns brought from Ttaly by Gustavus III. ;
Baedeker’s Norway and Sweden. 4th Edit. 22
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