Carl Larsson

According to the artist's own book keeping sold to Konstföreningen, May 1913.
Purchased by Industrialist and Senator Gustaf Boman, subsequently by descent.

Galerie Ernst Arnold, Breslau, March 1910 (under the title "Brita und die Lilie").
Konstföreningen för södra Sverige, "Carl Larsson-utställning i Malmö", June-July 1910, no. 47.
"Sezession Zeichnende Künste", Berlin, 1910/11 (under the title "Brita im Vorgemach").
"Exhibition of the work of modern Swedish artists at Public Art Galleries", Brighton, April-July 1911, no. 102.

Cecilia Lengefeld, "Der Maler des glücklichen Heims. Zur Rezeption Carl Larssons im wilhelminischen Deutschland", 1993, listed in the appendix over exhibitions, p. 126.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, catalogued, p. 128, no. 1377.

Carl Larsson is considered one of the greatest Swedish artists of all time. He was born in Gamla Stan in Stockholm and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in the years 1866-76. After his studies in Stockholm, he traveled to France and settled in Grèz-sur-Loing. There he mainly painted garden motifs. In France, he met his future wife Karin Bergöö, who was also an artist and came to mean a lot for his artistry. Already during his student years, he made a living as a photo retoucher and cartoonist in the press. It was also during his studies that Larsson got to know Anders Zorn and Bruno Liljefors, together the three are usually called the ABC artists. At the end of the 1880s, Carl and Karin were given "Lilla Hyttnäs" in Sundborn outside Falun by Karin's father, and this is where Larsson's most famous watercolors depicting his family were created. The motifs often depict sunny landscapes with children, crayfish fishing, meals in the green and interior scenes. Larsson is represented, among other, in the National Museum, where "Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm" and "Midvinterblot" fills the stairwell. Represented mainly at the National Museum in Stockholm and at the Gothenburg Art Museum.