Drottningholm Palace, Stockholm


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Lovely photo's of the Drottningholm Palace,I much prefer it to the Stockholm Royal Palace.
 
Just think.....this is the place where (That Woman ) Sofia will lay her tiara... just let that marinate for a minute.
 
I'd never paid much attention to the Palace Gardens or Park before thanks for posting!
 
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My pictures of the palaces I visited this past summer and then added pictures off are taking a bit much of my bandwidth at Photobucket. I will let the broschure and Corbis pics be in my earlier posts be, but I will now re-post the pictures I took myself of the palaces as attachments.

My pictures of Drottningholm Palace from 7 July 2004 - Part 1:
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GrandDuchess, These are very stately pictures of Drottningholm Palace.
 
:previous:Thank you for the videos of the palace, the blue bedroom, I like my bedroom so much more, that room is cold and uncomfortable looking, imagine waking up and having dozens of people looking at you, yikes, close the curtains and everyone leave now I say...I need to get dressed and have my coffee on the double....:lol::lol::lol:
 
Photo from Tuesday
"Did you know that Stockholm is not Nationalmuseum’s only location? The museum is responsible for collections of fine art and applied art at various castles, palaces, manor houses and museums around Sweden. In this image, a contemporary bronze cast from an original by Adriaen de Vries is being placed in front of Drottningholm Palace."
https://www.facebook.com/nationalmu...4846849556428/901644053210033/?type=1&theater

A couple of photos from the Chinese Pavilion
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Panorama from one of the salons
Drottningholm Palace, the Green salon _ Virtualsweden
Queen Lovisa Ulrika's Library
Drottningholm Palace, Lovisa Ulrikas library room _ Virtualsweden

Gorgeous photo, from Expressen's website
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A great german documentary of the Drottningholm Palace park. They show how the courtyard of the Palace is prepared to princess Leonore's christening, a big "L" is made of flowers. Queen Silvia has been interviewed. Chinese Pavilion is shown from inside too, and some rooms of the Palace. And the season of the Drottningholm Palace Theatre is opened with opera. They show how the "technology" at the old Theatre works. Painter Peter Tucker has his small paintings at the park. He loves the park, he has found a piece of his british homeland in the far north.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBV_3-zPAHw

The royal court published on it's Instagram on Friday a photo from the Drottningholm Palace park:
The labyrinth of English park has reemerged, but in a new form. It is no longer surrounded by high hedges as at Gustav III's time, but the goal is the same, to reach the midpoint.
https://instagram.com/p/6XQ7kiP8s9/?taken-by=kungahuset
 
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A great german documentary of the Drottningholm Palace park. They show how the courtyard of the Palace is prepared to princess Leonore's christening, a big "L" is made of flowers. Queen Silvia has been interviewed. Chinese Pavilion is shown from inside too, and some rooms of the Palace. And the season of the Drottningholm Palace Theatre is opened with opera. They show how the "technology" at the old Theatre works. Painter Peter Tucker has his small paintings at the park. He loves the park, he has found a piece of his british homeland in the far north.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBV_3-zPAHw

The royal court published on it's Instagram on Friday a photo from the Drottningholm Palace park:
The labyrinth of English park has reemerged, but in a new form. It is no longer surrounded by high hedges as at Gustav III's time, but the goal is the same, to reach the midpoint.
https://instagram.com/p/6XQ7kiP8s9/?taken-by=kungahuset
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I think this documentary was shown in Youtube and is deleted now, but on german NDR you can see yet:
Der schwedische Traum vom Paradies | NDR.de - Fernsehen - Sendungen A-Z - Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer
 
Photos from the Instagram of Håkan Groth, a photographer and antique handler

Queen Hedvig Eleonora's state bedchamber
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The staircase
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The Green Salon
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The coat of arms of Queen Hedvig Eleonora in the entrance to Drottningholm Palace.
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Overdoor in the Chinese Salon
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Portraits at Drottningholm Palace of Gustaf III (1746-92) painted posthumously in 1798 by Carl Fredric von Breda and that of his wife Queen Sophia Magdalena (1746-1813) by Alexander Roslin painted in 1774.
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The Chinese Salon
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Photos from the Instagram of Håkan Groth, a photographer and antique dealer and expert.
The Chinese Pavilion in the park at Drottningholm Palace in Sweden was built by Carl Fredric Adelcrantz for Queen Lovisa Ulrica in 1763-69. It replaced an earlier smaller pavilion built in wood that had been built as a surprise for the queen by her husband King Adolf Fredric and presented to her on her birthday 24 July 1753. It is European fantasy in the Rococo style of how a Chinese building might look. The royal family loved the building and it has survived remarkably unchanged.
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A detail of the décor above the entrance door to the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm built 1763-69. The dragons support a balcony.
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A detail of the décor above the windows of the Chinese Pavilion
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A separate house was built as a private dining room the 'Confidence' for the royal family at the Chinese Pavilion, Drottningholm. The kitchen is below and the table was set in the room below and was sent up through the floor. Food was delivered by dumbwaiters in the corners of the room. Here the royals and their closest friends could dine in private without servants eavesdropping.
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The bell- and clock tower at the Chinese Pavillion at Drottningholm sits above King Adolf Fredric's private pavillion completed 1760 by Carl Fredric Adelcrantz.
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The octagonal Marble Hall in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm was decorated in 1760's with walls in stucco lustro.
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One of the gilt metal decorations in the Marble Hall in the Chinese Pavilion
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The Mirror Salon in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm is the room that has the least Chinese influence here. The Gustavian chairs made c 1770-1780 covered with a hand painted Chinese 18th century silk were brought here in the 1840's by Oscar I.
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A detail of the carved and gilded décor designed by Carl Fredric Adelcrantz above one of the mirrors in the Mirror Salon in the Chinese Pavilion
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Queen Lovisa Ulrica's Bedroom in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. The queen never slept here and there was never a bed here, just the small sofa to the left. This was her most private room where she would retire to have a rest as the pavilion was only intended for daytime visits. All the furniture as well as the silk on the walls is original from the 1760's
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The small sofa in the Queen's Bedroom
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A Chinese lacquer cabinet on a Swedish Louis XV stand from the 1760's in the Queen's Bedroom in the Chinese Pavilion
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The Queen's Study in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. The embroidery on the panels were made by Queen Lovisa Ulrica and her ladies-in-waiting in the 1760's. The two blue and white Chinese Ming lidded urns once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden.
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A painted Chinese glass panel.
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A watercolour by the architect Carl Fredric Adelcrantz from the 1760's of the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. This drawing was sent by Queen Lovisa Ulrica to her brother King Fredrick the Great of Prussia in Berlin.
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A plan over the Chinese Pavilion in the park at Drottningholm dated 1779, two years after Gustaf III had bought the estate from his mother the Dowager Queen Lovisa Ulrica. 1 the main pavilion, 2 storage for silver, china and glass, 3 Billiard Pavilion, 4 the King's Pavilion, 5 the 'Confidence' dining pavilion, 6 the kitchen.
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The Green Salon in the Chinese Salon at Drottningholm was decorated by Johan Pasch with motifs inspired by engravings by François Boucher. The stools are still covered with their original green leather from the 1760's.
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The Green Salon in the Chinese Salon at Drottningholm was decorated by Johan Pasch with motifs inspired by engravings by François Boucher. The couple to the left in the painting seem, rather disturbingly, to be holding an animal (a cat?) over a cooking pot.
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The Red Cabinet in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm is the only room in the pavilion that shows similarity to a genuine Chinese interior. It is based on an interior published in Sir William Chambers' work 'Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture...' The black lacquer panels comes from a Chinese screen.
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An usually elaborate LouisXV corner console table (one of four) made in Stockholm in the 1750's for Drottningholm Palace and transferred to the Chinese Pavilion in 1760's. It was probably carved by a French craftsman working at the Royal Palace in Stockholm.
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A Swedish Louis XV (Rococo) ormolu chandelier in the Red Cabinet in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm.
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The unique set of stools in the Chinese Pavilion were made in the 1760's in a style that was considered 'Chinese' at the time.
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The Yellow Cabinet in the Chinese Pavilion, Drottningholm, has lacquer panels from a Chinese screen fitted into the panelling. The overdoors were painted by Johan Pasch after François Boucher.
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A Chinese mirror painting in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm.
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A stool from the unique series of stools made for the Chinese Pavilion were made in the 1760's in a style that was considered 'Chinese' at the time. The hand painted silk was replaced during the 1960's restoration
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The Green Gallery in the Chinese Pavilion. The landscape paintings that adorned wall are sadly missing, but the original curved benches are still in situ
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The Yellow Gallery in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. The landscape paintings that adorned wall are sadly missing like inte Green Gallery.
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One of the two overdoor paintings by Johan Pasch in the Yellow Gallery in the Chinese Pavilion.
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One of the simple but elegantly curved benches in the Yellow Gallery in the Chinese Pavilion
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The Blue Salon in the Chinese Pavilion was also used as a dining room. Each room in the pavilion is decorated in a contrasting colour to the preceding one. The walls were decorated by Johan Pasch with Chinoiseries after engravings by François Boucher. The dining chairs are original to the room that originally had a stone floor.
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Queen Lovisa Ulrica of Sweden (1720-82) by the Prussian court painter Antoine Pesne. The Queen was a sister of Fredric the Great of Prussia and married to King Adolf Fredric of Sweden. She was a great patron of the arts and she and her husband had the Chinese Pavilion built in the park at Drottningholm Palace in the 1760's. There was one problem in this otherwise very happy marriage. The queen wanted power to rule, but the Parliament had the power and her husband the king was a mere figurehead. They tried to stage a coup d'etat to take power in 1756. This failed and her closest supporters were executed and the royal couple were humiliated. A name stamp was used if the King refused to sign state documents he didn't agree with.
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The Octagonal Room in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm still has the original hand painted, albeit faded, Chinese silk on the walls. The upstairs rooms in the pavilion were private and the court was only allowed up here if invited.
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A detail of the original 18th century hand painted Chinese silk on the walls in the upstairs Octagonal Room in the Chinese Pavilion
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One of the Swedish Louis XV armchairs in the upstairs Octagonal Salon in the Chinese Pavilion
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One of the small private rooms upstairs in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm with original hand painted Chinese wallpaper from the 1760's. Through the open jib-door the gilt wood Royal 'chaise percée' is visible.
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Lady Finn the Drottningholm Palace it opens to the public?
 
Thanks to Lady Finn for the great pictures. Drottningholm Palace has such a soft touch, not so martial in appearance and interior. Very nice. Hopefully the missing panelling in some salons can be reconstructed.

Eya: it is open for visits indeed: Drottningholm Palace - Sveriges Kungahus
 
Still some photos from the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm from the Instagram of Håkan Groth, a photographer and antique dealer and expert.

Another of the small private rooms upstairs in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. The hand painted Chinese silk on the walls is original from the 1760's when the pavilion was built by Carl Fredric Adelcrantz for Queen Lovisa Ulrica and her family.
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A Swedish Louis XV chair covered with a hand painted silk copied in the 1960's from the original.
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The Oval Salon upstairs in the Chinese Pavilion. Gustaf III loved his mother's Chinese pavilion and he used this room as his study after he purchased the Drottningholm estate from her. His secretaire is French Louis XVI signed Topino and the English Chippendale chairs were also brought here by the King. The large set of chairs were originally placed in the Blue Salon that served as a dining room.
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The last room upstairs in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm is the library. The black freestanding bookcase has a writing flap so it could also serve as desk. There was a librarian here so members of the court could borrow books when they and the royal family were here, but they were not allowed in here so they had to order books from a list and return them at the end of the day.
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The library in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm has a collection of Chinese porcelain figures that Queen Lovisa Ulrica owned. It was possible to bring them all back thanks to the inventory and when later wallpaper was removed, imprints showed where all the small gilt wood consoles ha been positioned.
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The private dining room the so-called 'Confidence' was built for the royal family at the Chinese Pavilion, Drottningholm. The kitchen is below and the table was set in the room below and then sent up through the floor. Food was delivered by the four dumbwaiters in the corners. Here the royals and their closest friends could dine in private without servants eavesdropping
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A close-up of Queen Lovisa Ulrica's wonderful collection of colourful Chinese roosters (and other birds) in the library in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm.
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The 'Corps de Garde' building near the Chinese Pavilion in the park at Drottningholm Palace outside Stockholm. When Gustaf III acquired the estate from his mother Queen Lovisa Ulrica in 1777 he continued to use her Chinese Pavilion without any major changes but he had Carl Fredric Adelcrantz build this 'tent' in 1781-82 for the Royal Guard. The eccentric Mexican millionaire Carlos de Bestegui (1895-1970) had his architect Emilio Terry copy this 'Tente Tartare' in the garden at his Château de Groussay in France that he had bought in 1938-39.
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The Drottningholm Palace Theatre

The Drottningholm Court Theatre built by Carl Fredric Adelcrantz for Queen Lovisa Ulrica. It was completed in 1766 in time for the festivities when Crown Prince Gustaf (III) married Princess Sophia Magdalena of Denmark.
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The auditorium at Drottningholm Court Theatre built in 1766.
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The famous hand painted wallpaper in the prima ballerina's dressing room at the Drottningholm Court Theatre.
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One of the dressing rooms at the Drottningholm Court Theatre.
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One of the simple wooden staircases at the Drottningholm Court Theatre.
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A portrait of the talented architect Carl Fredric Adelcrantz (1716-1796) painted in 1754 by Alexander Roslin. Adelcrantz who became the Royal Superintendent built the Drottningholm Court Theater in 1766 and was made a Baron the same year.
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A ground floor room at the Drottningholm Court Theater.
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Photo challenge at Drottningholm!
During the Easter Holiday we have a photo challenge at Drottningholm Palace – bring your camera and join us!
The photo challenge for this Easter holiday is ”Feathers”. Discover the birds and feathers in the palace interiors using your camera.
A selection of the photos will be published at the court website.
Photo challenge at Drottningholm! - Sveriges Kungahus

At Drottningholm Palace, we celebrate King and Queen's 40th wedding anniversary by giving a wedding showing which tells about the royal weddings through the times from the Queen Hedvig Eleonora and King Charles X Gustav in 1654 to Prince Carl and Princess Sofia Pilip 2015.
On June 19-July 17 daily at 15:00
Bröllopsvisning 19 juni–17 juli på Drottningholm slott - Sveriges Kungahus
 
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Looks like a very interesting exhibition :previous:
 
Curious about Museum de Vries – theme day 27 August
Museum de Vries is situated in the old dragoon stables at Drottningholm. Take the chance to see the world’s largest collection of de Vries sculptures on the 27th of August.
Curious*about*Museum de Vries – theme day 27 August - Sveriges Kungahus

Museum de Vries
The Museum de Vries, at Drottningholm Palace, is a unique collection of sculptures by Adriaen de Vries (1556–1626), one of the foremost Baroque sculptors.
Adriaen de Vries, a Dutchman, was one of the most renowned sculptors of his day and court sculptor to Emperor Rudolf II. The Museum de Vries is devoted entirely to works by this successful artist.
The majority of de Vries’ sculptures ended up in Sweden thanks to the country’s military successes in the 17th century. By the end of Sweden’s age of greatness, around 1718, there were no fewer than 32 bronze sculptures, mainly by Adriaen de Vries, in Drottningholm Park. With a few exceptions, the sculptures stayed in the park until recent times. After the extent of the damage caused by the elements was discovered, the originals were moved into the Dragonstallet building near Drottningholms Wärdshus and replaced with modern replicas cast in bronze. The new museum in Dragonstallet opened in 2001.
Museum de Vries - Nationalmuseum
 
Evert Lundquist's Studio is found in the old machine house by the Chinese Pavilion at the Drottningholm Palace Park.
The machine house was used to generate electricity by steam engine to central heat the castle at the beginning of the 1900s. In the 1950s, when alternating current became the norm, the building was let as a studio to the artist Evert Lundquist who worked here between 1953 and 1992.
Today, the studio is a museum housing oil paintings, charcoal drawings and dry-point engravings of Evert Lundquist (1904–1994).
Evert Lundquist´s Studio - Sveriges Kungahus

Upptäck Evert Lundquists ateljé på Drottningholm – guidade visningar på söndagar - Sveriges Kungahus
 
Photos from the Instagram of Håkan Groth, a photographer and antique dealer and expert.
Drottningholm Palace outside Stockholm was began to be built in 1662 by the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder for Queen Hedvig Eleonora. His son Nicodemus the Younger took over after his death in 1680. Crown Princess (later queen) Lovisa Ulrica had the architect Carl Hårleman add an extra story to the wings after she took possession in 1744.
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Drottningholm Palace began in 1662 for Dowager Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Sweden. It was built by her as a monument of the royal dynasty founded by her late husband Carl X Gustaf (d. 1660). She was born a princess of Holstein-Gottorp and was widowed after only six years of marriage at the age of 24 and lived as a widow for another 58 years.
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The Hercules Fountain in the centre of the formal garden at Drottningholm by Adrien de Vries (1556-1626). It was taken as loot from Prag during the Thirty Year War by the Swedish army in 1648 from the garden of the Wallenstein Palace.
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The Neptune sculpture by Adrien de Vries 1615-18 from Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark now at Drottningholm Palace where it greets visitors arriving by boat. All the 26 bronze sculptures by de Vries (the largest collection anywhere) in the park are replaced by modern copies.
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The formal Baroque garden at Drottningholm Royal Palace was laid out after plans from 1681 by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. It was restored in the 20th century, sadly in a simplified form. It originally had a much more elaborate embroidery parterre with lots of flowers. Compare the elaborate garden at Het Loo in the Netherlands that were successfully restored in the late 20th century.
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The entrance loggia on the east side facing Lake Mälaren at Drottningholm Palace. The door on the right leads into the central staircase.
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The coat-of-arms of Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Sweden and her late husband Carl X Gustaf created in the around 1665 by the Italians Carlo Carove and Giovanni Caroveri. They created the magnificent stucco decorations in the grand central staircase designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.
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Photos from the Instagram of Håkan Groth, a photographer and antique dealer and expert.
The grand staircase at Drottningholm Palace.
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Nicodemus Tessin the Elder's design for the grand central staircase at Drottningholm Palace. Print from 1694 by the Dutch engraver Willem Swidde (c 1660-97) for the work 'Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna', published in 1716.
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More examples of the excellent stucco work by the North Italian artists Carlo Carove and Giovanni Caroveri at Drottningholm Palace.
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The staircase at Drottningholm Palace was decorated with marble sculptures of Apollo, Minerva, the Nine Muses and busts of imagined 'Gothic' kings by the Flemish artist Nicolae Millich 1670-85.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJsIcVvhmod/?taken-by=hakan_groth
A marble sculpture of Urania by Nicolae Millich the muse of astronomy from the Greek mythology and a daughter of Zeus.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJsI23cB5Tf/?taken-by=hakan_groth
One of the frescoes by Johan Sylvius in the staircase at Drottningholm Palace.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJsJnB7hSWy/?taken-by=hakan_groth
Fresco by Johan Sylvius in the staircase at Drottningholm Palace.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJsJx9JBdlX/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The staircase at Drottningholm Palace.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJsYVMShUfY/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The Italians Carlo Carove and Giovanni Caroveri created the magnificent stucco decorations in the grand central staircase at Drottningholm Palace designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJqvFAuBBfm/?taken-by=hakan_groth
 
Photos from the Instagram of Håkan Groth, a photographer and antique dealer and expert.
The monogram of Queen Hedvig Eleonora, HERS, is found in many places at Drottningholm Palace. She was a great patron of the arts, collector and a very keen builder.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJsZwQJBtQw/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The most important room at Drottningholm Palace is Queen Hedvig Eleonora's State Bedroom. It is the most elaborately decorated room, but the queen never slept here. The bed was installed for Crown Princess, later Queen, Lovisa Ulrica after she moved in after her arrival from Prussia and marriage to the Crown Prince Adolph Fredric in 1744.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJtG7I_hPLv/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The richly gilded decor of the State Bedroom at Drottningholm Palace.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJtQL98B759/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The ceiling in the State Bedroom decorated by Ehrenstrahl with a painting showing the hand of Hedvig Eleonora meeting her husband Carl X Gustaf under the all-seeing eye of Divine Providence.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJtZZUDhvck/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The Ehrenstrahl Salon at Drottningholm was the Audience Room of Queen Hedvig Eleonora. Ehrenstrahl painted the large canvases with motifs glorifying the Queen and her family. Queen Lovisa Ulrica had it 'modernised' around 1750 with new frames to the painting a new chimneypiece and mirror as well as new overdoor paintings. The French Louis XV chairs are by Louis Cresson.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJuSu4LB1bs/?taken-by=hakan_groth
A Chinese famille rose floor vase from the early Qianlong period (1735-96). There are four of these at Drottningholm and they are very similar to a pair in the Long Gallery at Osterley Park. These probably came here through the Swedish East India Company.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJuTYTEh7NK/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The frame of the overmantle mirror in the Ehrenstrahl Salon designed by Carl Hårleman c 1750 is crowned by the Polestar. Carl XI (1655-97) had chosen it as a royal symbol in response to Louis XIV claiming the Sun. The Polestar never sets and knows of no decline...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJuVfKmBi0N/?taken-by=hakan_groth
The fire screen in the Ehrenstrahl Salon, probably designed by Carl Hårleman, has a woven tapestry with a motif 'à la Turc'.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJuV-GSBjoD/?taken-by=hakan_groth
A commode made as the masterpiece in 1782 by Johan Christian Linning. Gustaf III bought it for his son Crown Prince Gustaf Adolph. The clock and the candelabras are French Louis XVI from the 1780's.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJvUt2BBeUP/?taken-by=hakan_groth
 
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