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Carl August Ehrensvärd (5 May 1745 – 21 May 1800)

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Count Carl August Ehrensvärd (5 May 1745 – 21 May 1800) was a Swedish naval officer, painter, author, and neo-classical architect.
Ehrensvärd was born in Stockholm, and died in Örebro. Though active as a naval officer during his entire life, he is mostly remembered for the burlesque caricatures of often famous people from his era with which he decorated his letters.^{[citation needed]} Some of his writings were published by Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet.
In 1790, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Carl August Ehrensvärd (1745-1800, ur Svenska Familj-Journalen)

Caricature of Gustav III's Attempt to Produce an Heir. Adolf Fredrick Munck assists Gustav with his first sexual intercourse with Sofia Magdalena (Carl August Ehrensvard, ca. 1770s)

Profiles

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Poetens rätta födelse, en digters fødsel ud af naturens moderskød, et kvindetårn med faldlem, viser Ehrensvärds satiriske kvindesyn; fra billedserien Poetens historia (1795).

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Motiv av urnor. Bladstorl 20 x 32. Proveniens: Samlingarna på Tosterup, Skåne, genom arv.

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Let us dance and smoke

Carl August Ehrensvärd

The Eagle Ashamed (Jupiter and Danaë), detail.

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Heaven

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Female profile

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Johannishus slott

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Karl XII, suverän och allom bjudande, lägger stövlarna på rådsbordet och påtar sig själv att utföra kriget. (Speritning till svenska historien)

Carl August Ehrensvärd

... folket i rörelse som under en högtid, och jorden bära sin frukt i tre lag. (Resa till Italien 1780, 1781, 1782)

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Skalden J. G. Oxenstierna, liksom Demostenes övande sig i vältalighet.

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Ordensprydd man, penis

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Rutger Maclean

Carl August Ehrensvärd

This image of an artist carving a work that dwarfs him while a trumpeter plays is one of numerous autobiographical drawings the Swedish sculptor Ehrensvärd made throughout his career that reveal both the convivial and the melancholy sides of his personality. While it encapsulates the Piranesi-esque idea of modern man overwhelmed by the magnitude of the monuments of antiquity, Ehrensvärd's drawing is less histrionic in tone.

Carl August Ehrensvärd

By Carl August Ehrensvärd

EHRENSVÄRD Carl August, 1745-1800 (Sweden) Title : Åttan och Figurering

CARL AUGUST EHRENSVÄRD, Gracer.

EHRENSVÄRD Carl August, 1745-1800 (Sweden) Title : Marine

EHRENSVÄRD Carl August, 1745-1800 (Sweden) Title : Diana and Aktaion

EHRENSVÄRD Carl August, 1745-1800 (Sweden) Title : Hercules stående bland skelett tillbedd av härskarinna och biskop - en politisk allegori över Gustav III