Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden: The Collections of Count Tessin

Marco Simone Bolzoni, Moore Curatorial Fellow, Drawings and Prints.

All gallery talks and tours are free with museum admission; no tickets or reservations necessary.

The art collection of Count Carl Gustaf Tessin in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, is a unique example of the prevalent taste during the rococo period in Paris. Magnus Olausson, Director of Collections and Research at the Nationalmuseum, explores the ideals that shaped Tessin’s collecting.

The exhibition Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden: The Collections of Count Tessin will open at 5:30 pm for program attendees.

Ilona van Tuinen, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator, Drawings and Prints

All gallery talks and tours are free with museum admission; no tickets or reservations necessary.

Spend two hours sketching, drawing inspiration from the masterpieces featured in Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden: The Collections of Count Tessin. Simon Levenson, Artist and National Arts Club instructor, will be available to assist you. Open to artists of all levels.

Spend two hours sketching, drawing inspiration from the masterpieces featured in Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden: The Collections of Count Tessin. Susan Stillman, Artist and Parsons The New School for Design faculty member, will be available to assist you. Open to artists of all levels.

Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator, Drawings and Prints
Ilona van Tuinen, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator, Drawings and Prints

Presented in conjunction with the Morgan’s Swedish Festival.

All gallery talks and tours are free with museum admission; no tickets or reservations necessary.

Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator, Drawings and Prints
Ilona van Tuinen, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator, Drawings and Prints

Presented in conjunction with the Morgan’s Swedish Festival.

All gallery talks and tours are free with museum admission; no tickets or reservations necessary.

Join us for an evening celebration! Flugelhorn player Oskar Stenmark will perform Swedish jazz and folk music with Billy Test on piano in Gilbert Court. Enjoy a prix-fixe Swedish tasting plate and old-fashioned Glögg in the Morgan Café, and curatorial gallery talks at 6 pm and 7:15 pm on the exhibition Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden.

Per Tengstrand, piano

Pianist Per Tengstrand performs Swedish music from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries, intertwined with more known composers whose music inspired the Swedish works. This concert coincides with the exhibition Treasures from the Nationalmuseum, Sweden: The Collections of Count Tessin and is co-presented with The American-Scandinavian Foundation/Scandinavia House.

It is generally acknowledged that Boucher’s Triumph of Venus, painted in the summer of 1740 for Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, is the artist’s greatest mythological painting. Brilliant and ambitious in conception and organization, its complex interlocking figures modeled with supreme assurance, this large-scale cabinet picture constitutes Boucher’s signal achievement. Colin B.