Swedish National Museum, Stockholm is located to the southeast of Stockholm's Gustav Adolfs Torg, at the southern tip of the Blasieholm peninsula. This National Museum is a haven for any art enthusiast as it is home to Sweden's finest art collection, including priceless paintings and sculpture, decorative art items and a department of modern applied art. Swedish National Museum, Stockholm was founded in the year 1792 as Konglig Museum or the "Royal Museum". However, the present building was opened in the year 1866 and given the name of Nationalmuseum.
The art gallery at Swedish National Museum, Stockholm displays significant works by some of the well known Dutch and Flemish artists, including Rembrandt ("Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis" and "The Painter's Cook"), Rubens ("Bacchanale" and "Sacrifice to Venus") and Frans Hals the Elder ("Fiddler").In fact, you can find works of all the great masters from 16th to 20th century at Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. These include some extraordinary paintings and sculptures by Rembrandt, Rubens, Boucher, Renoir, Degas and Gauguin and the Swedish masters Anders Zorn and Carl Larsson.
The museum also exhibits a valuable collection of drawings, engravings and handicrafts from the Renaissance to the present day in one of its many galleries. The most famous painting at this museum is the renowned "The Triumph of Venus" by Francois Boucher, which he painted in the year 1740.
Here you can also see many pictures by 18th century French painters like Boucher, Watteau, etc. Works of renowned artists such as D. K. Ehrenstrahl, Al Roslin, Carl Fredrik Hill, Prince Eugen, Ernst Josephson, Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors, Karl Norström and Anders Zorn are also displayed in this gallery as a representation of modern Swedish painting.
Swedish National Museum in Stockholm also houses a department of graphic art, which includes some interesting architectural drawings in its collection. The beautifully manicured gardens on the northwestern side of the museum exhibit a bronze statue group called "The Wrestlers" ("Bältespännare", 1867), depicting an old Nordic form of wrestling in which the contestants were tied together at the waist.
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