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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen, Denmark

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  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Melancholy, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek collection. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Source credit: site Vasari [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source file, public-domain mark. Square detail crops. The five landmark images are class examples, not Glyptotek works.

What the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek collection covers

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek brings ancient Mediterranean sculpture and portraiture together with Danish and French art. Its holdings include Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Etruscan objects alongside nineteenth-century painting and sculpture. Collections

Brewer and collector Carl Jacobsen founded the museum, which opened to the public in 1897. The Winter Garden forms a central part of its architectural setting, while the collections connect ancient portraiture with Danish Golden Age painting and French Impressionism.

Its collection strengths include ancient Mediterranean sculpture and portraiture, French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Danish Golden Age art.

  • The Daughters of Cecrops Discovering Erichthonius

    Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

    Eckersberg's painting offers an entry into Danish Golden Age art. Wikidata lists the work in the Glyptotek collection with inventory number 877.

  • View of the Citadel's Rampart

    Christen Købke

    Købke's view gives a place-specific starting point for exploring Danish painting. Wikidata lists the painting in the Glyptotek collection with inventory number 3126.

  • Melancholy

    Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

    Corot's painting represents the French side of the collection. Wikidata lists it as an oil painting on canvas with inventory number MIN 1894.

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek allows non-commercial photos with a small camera or phone, with no flash in painting exhibitions, no lamps, tripods, selfie sticks or other equipment, no product photography or commercial tagging, no blocked passages or inconvenience to others, no indoor wedding or engagement sessions, and compliance with custodians' instructions; professional shoots require advance permission. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek photography policy

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