Queen's Grand Audience Hall, Royal reception hall in Drottningholm Palace, Sweden
The Queen's Grand Audience Hall, formerly the Great Audience Chamber, is a room in Drottningholm Palace next to Hedvig Eleonora's state bedchamber. Court painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl made six large wall paintings in framed fields and a ceiling plafond, installed 1696–1698. Carl Hårleman later lightened the heavy Baroque style into Rococo for Lovisa Ulrika.
The room was created in 1690 as Queen Hedvig Eleonora's grand audience hall beside her state bedchamber. Court painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl made six wall paintings and a ceiling plafond, installed in 1696–1698. Under Queen Lovisa Ulrika, Carl Hårleman lightened the heavy baroque interior into rococo.
The room was created in 1690 as the queen's grand audience hall, also called the council room, next to Hedvig Eleonora's state bedchamber. Its name comes from court painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, who made six wall paintings and a ceiling plafond there. The ceiling's central panel, "Svenska konungars berömliga bedrifter", was engraved by Czesław Słania as his 1000th stamp in March 2000.
The hall is accessible only through guided tours of Drottningholm Palace, which operate daily except during official royal functions. Visitor experience depends on checking ahead for current opening times and any closures before arrival.
The central panel of the ceiling painting, "Svenska konungars berömliga bedrifter", was used in March 2000 as the motif for Czesław Słania's 1000th engraved stamp. At 60 x 81 mm and with a value of 50 kronor, it is probably the world's largest engraved stamp. Słania also engraved the palace's west facade as it looked in 1695 on the stamp's lower border.
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