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ÅçåíÉåíë Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm Volume OM OMNP Foreword The Editorial Committee V ~Åèìáëáíáçåë OMNP Three NT th-Century Paintings from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf Sparre Carina Fryklund NN Roslin’s Self-Portrait with his Wife Marie Suzanne Giroust Painting a Portrait of Henrik Wilhelm Peill Magnus Olausson NT Wertmüller’s Portrait of Henri Bertholet-Campan with the Dog Aline Magnus Olausson NV Heimdall Returns Brísingamen to Freyja Carl-Johan Olsson ON Cat in a Summer Meadow Carl-Johan Olsson OP ÅçåíÉåíë Une statuette en terre cuite de Jean-Baptiste Stouf au Nationalmuseum Guilhem Scherf OT Madame Lefranc Painting a Portrait of her Husband Charles Lefranc: A Miniature by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Magnus Olausson PT A Unique Plate Warmer Anders Bengtsson PV A Chair Fit for a Prince Anders Bengtsson QN Sylvia Stave in the Nationalmuseum Micael Ernstell and Magnus Olausson QP Gifts from the Bengt Julin Fund in OMNP Micael Ernstell QT A Portrait of Gertrud Fridh as Medea, by Rolf Winquist Eva-Lena Karlsson RP Ernst Josephson: Painting Poet and Poetic Painter Magdalena Gram RR The Joy of Giving Eva Qviberg RV Acquisitions OMNP : Exposé SN ÉñÜáÄáíáçåë OMNP Carl Larsson: Friends & Enemies Per Hedström VT ÅçåíÉåíë Hans Gedda Eva-Lena Karlsson NMN Masters of Darkness Carina Fryklund NMR ~êíáÅäÉë çå íÜÉ Üáëíçêó ~åÇ íÜÉçêó çÑ ~êí An Italian Architecture Library under the Polar Star: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger’s Collection of Books and Prints Martin Olin NMV Louis Gauffier’s Portrait of Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt: A Political or a Conspiratorial Painting? Magnus Olausson NNV An Exceptionally Protracted Affair: The Nationalmuseum’s Acquisition of Sergel’s Collections of Drawings and Prints, NUTRÓNUTS Ulf Cederlöf NOP ëÜçêíÉê åçíáÅÉë A Source-Critical Comment on Roger de Robelin’s “On the provenance of Rembrandt’s The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis ” Görel Cavalli-Björkman and Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf NPR Response to “A Source-Critical Comment etc.” Roger de Robelin NPT êÉéçêí The Nationalmuseum Lighting Lab Helen Evans and Helena Kåberg NPV ÑçêÉïçêÇ Foreword The Editorial Committee Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm qÜÉ ^êí _ìääÉíáå of Nationalmuseum, as the way forward in safeguarding the Stockholm, hitherto a printed publication, quality of the research published. has with the present volume switched to a The longer articles in this volume deal digital format. Factors behind this change with the Nationalmuseum’s acquisition of include the development of free access to Johan Tobias Sergel’s drawings and prints, scholarly information and a wish to see Nicodemus Tessin the Younger’s architec - the Bulletin’s articles disseminated more tural library and Louis Gauffier’s politically effectively. charged portrait of Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. Competition in the world of research Alongside these topics, a series of interest - has increased, and both “sector-based” re - ing new acquisitions are reported and com - search and state-funded research in the hu - mented on, together with three of the Mu - manities are coming under growing scruti - seum’s exhibitions. Other contributions in - ny. The discussion within RIHA, the Inter - clude a report on work in the Nationalmu - national Association of Research Institutes seum’s light laboratory. in the History of Art, of which the National - The last-mentioned report is an exam - museum is a member, suggests that this is a ple of the dialogue that is so important in a phenomenon seen throughout the West - museum setting between curators and con - ern world. On the other hand, it has been servators, and between art history and con - said that the best time for the humanities is servation science. In recent times, the inter - now – a globalised society requires under - disciplinary field of technical art history has standing of languages, communication and paved the way for closer ties between theo - complex reflection – and it can also be ar - retical university research and object-based gued that art history has its own particular research in museums. The Bulletin’s editori - mission in that context. al committee welcome the results of this Research in museums is strongly trend, which have already made themselves linked to the collections held there and felt in the Museum’s research. the materiality of the objects they contain. This twentieth volume of the Art Bul - That being so, it should be able to hold its letin retains the graphic design of the own in the broader research community. print publication. The editorial team are Like many other international art muse - looking ahead and thinking of the Bulletin ums, the Nationalmuseum has a long tra - more and more as part of the Museum’s dition of research and, for twenty years, future website. In terms of content, this the Art Bulletin has been an important volume reflects the Bulletin’s increasingly channel of communication in that connec - focused approach as a scholarly publica - tion. Quality assurance of its contents has tion in which critical voices, too, are per - been progressively developed, and peer re - mitted to be heard. view of articles is seen by the editorial team V Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm Volume OM OMNP ~ÅèìáëáíáçåëLíÜêÉÉ NTíÜJÅÉåíìêó é~áåíáåÖë Three NT th-Century Paintings from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf Sparre Carina Fryklund Curator, Old Master Drawings and Paintings qÜÉ k~íáçå~äãìëÉìã has acquired three important Flemish and Dutch cabi - net pictures from the former collection of Count Gustaf Adolf Sparre ( NTQSÓNTVQ ): two genre scenes in a smaller format by David Teniers the Younger (Fig. N) and Jacob Toorenvliet (Fig. O), and a landscape by Gijsbrecht Leytens (Fig. P). All three paintings are in their collector’s distinctive carved and gilded wood frames in Neoclassi - cal Gustavian style, in two standard designs. Gustaf Adolf Sparre af Söfdeborg (Fig. R) was heir to one of Sweden’s wealthiest 1 merchant families. Born on S January NTQS , he was the son of Rutger Axel Sparre, a director of the Swedish East India Com - pany. His mother, Sara Christina Sahlgren, was from a prominent and cultured Gothenburg family of merchants. Their marriage in NTQM brought an influx of wealth to the Sparre dynasty. Following the fire which in winter NTQS , a week after Gustaf Adolf’s birth, destroyed the original Sahlgren house in Gothenburg, Sara’s mother Birgitta Sahlgren commissioned Bengt Wilhelm Carlberg ( NSVSÓNTTU ), the city’s leading