Daniel Cronström (29 September 1655 in
Avesta
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Dalarna County
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– 30 August 1719 in
Paris
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) was a Swedish architect working in the
Late Baroque style, influenced by the French style of
Louis XIV
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.
He entered the foreign service and served in
France
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as a Commission Secretary in 1679. He was sent to Paris in the 1690s as a cultural ambassador whose duty it was to seek out, record in drawings and buy as much as he possibly could of first-rate material related to the decorative arts. The Tessin-Cronström correspondence is an archive of information on French style in architecture and the arts. An exhibition of such drawings from Swedish state collections devoted to Cronström and
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (23 May 1654 – 10 April 1728) was a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator.
The son of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and the father of Carl Gustaf Tessin, Tessin the Younger was the midd ...
, "Versailles: The View From Sweden" was mounted at the
Cooper-Hewitt Museum in
New York City
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during 1988.
References
other sources
*N. Tessin et D. Cronström, 1964. ''Les relations artistiques entre la France et la Suède, 1693-1718''. Correspondence. (1964)
External links
* http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BrievenAnthonieHeinsius1702-1720/Index/c
Daniel Cronström, in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (article of R. Josephson. With contribution of P. Sörensson)
Swedish architects
1655 births
1719 deaths
Ambassadors of Sweden to France
People from Avesta (locality)
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