Waldemarsudde’s art on paper has been shown to a much lesser extent than oil paintings and never in its own right. This exhibition showcases the breadth and diversity of the museum’s drawings, graphic works and art on paper in other media. It combines a thematic, stylistic and chronological selection of works from around 1850 to the middle of the 20th century, emphasising the links between Scandinavian and French art.

Realistic, Symbolistic and early Modernist styles feature together with a selection of paintings. This is complemented by a room dedicated to artist portraits and one showing etchings by Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. Another theme of the exhibition is about different landscape traditions.

Works on paper make up a large part of the art collection at Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde. The collection consists mainly of works from Prince Eugen’s estate, i.e. several works from the prince’s own artistic creations, art that he acquired between 1887 and 1947, and gifts from artist friends and others. It also includes some donations from the museological period, which were integrated into the collection after the prince’s death in 1947.

The collection is made up primarily of art by Scandinavian artists in general and Swedish artists in particular, who were contemporaries of Prince Eugen, such as J.A.G. Acke, Edvard Munch, Ernst Norlind and Harald Sallberg. There are also several im-portant artworks by French artists from the mid-19th to the early 20th century such as Camille Corot, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas and Henri Matisse. In addition, the museum’s collection of graphic art includes some 90 colour woodcuts by the 19th-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige.