June 15 - September 26, 2010 This year marks the 200th anniversary of the election of Jean Bernadotte, Marshal in the army of Napoleon I, as Crown Prince of Sweden, under the name of Karl Johan. This is marked in an exhibition featuring artworks and other objects connected to the Bernadotte dynasty. The exhibition includes a number of paintings by Prince Eugen (the great grandson of Karl Johan) and by Princess Eugénie (Karl Johan's grand child and Prince Eugen's aunt). Portraits and caricatures, busts, letters, medals and photographs also form part of the exhibition. The Husgerådskammaren (the Royal Collections), has lent Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde 48 water-colour drawings by Princess Eugénie (1830-1889) which will be shown with drawings by the Princess from Prince Eugen's Collection. Eugénie, who lacked a formal artistic training, often depicted what she saw close at hand - family members and friends, snapshot images of everyday life. Prince Eugen (1865-1947), who belonged to the next generation of Bernadottes, was lucky in having three older brothers and therefore being distant enough from the succession to be allowed to train as an artist. Together with works by Prince Eugen from the Waldemarsudde Collections, some on-loan paintings will be exhibited, for example the Prince's reception piece to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, En sommardag. Motiv från Balingsta (A Summer's Day. Motif from Balingsta) from 1891 and the monumental Gryning, Stockholms slott (Dawn, Royal Palace, Stockholm). The latter work was exhibited at the Paris World Expo in 1900, then donated to Stockholms nation (the Stockholm Student Club) at Uppsala University, from where we have it on loan. The exhibition also features a number of objects from the Collections with a connection to the founder of the dynasty, Karl Johan, such as his snuffbox in shell and silver. Other early Bernadotte kings and their consorts are also featured in the exhibition, as for instance Oscar I with his son Karl (later XV), who are portrayed in a charcoal drawing by Fredrik Westin. Oscar II is depicted in a miniature by Fanny Hjelm, as well as onboard a warship, and his consort, Queen Sophia, has been painted by their son, Prince Eugen. The Prince's older brother, Gustaf (V), is represented in a humorous painting from the tennis-courts. The Private Apartments also form part of the exhibition, as there is a strong presence of his ancestors and his French decent in the Prince's home. In the Drawing Room, for instance, there is a portrait bust of Karl Johan by Giuseppe Ceracchi, and an oil sketch of his grandson Oscar II in coronation robes by Oscar Björck. The Empire chandelier in the Dining Room with its 5 000 prisms is a Bernadotte heirloom, as are the painted and guilt porcelain urns in the Hall. Even a detail like the French lilies on the bespoke Carl Malmsten table in the Drawing Room, bears witness to the importance of the Prince's French decent in the design of his home at Waldemarsudde.