Carl Larsson
"Tamburmajor Jonas August Jonasson. Studie till Korum"
Signerad med dedikation: "Från tacksamme C.L.". Troligen utförd 1898. Blyerts, akvarell, täckvitt och färgkrita 60,5 x 24,5 cm.
Literature
Ulwa Nergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, upptagen i katalogdelen under år 1898-1899, som kat nr 854.
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Musikfanjunkare Jonas August Jonasson var i ett och ett halvt decennium tamburmajor, när Göta Garde vaktparadsmarscherade till slottet. Musiken, som ingick i vaktparaden, bestod på 1890-talet av 40 man, och det var inte mindre än 16 trumslagare. "Då lät det något, när vi kom Strandvägen fram", berättade August Jonasson vid en intervju inför sin 70-årsdag 1936. Det förtäljes också att han lär ha varit Stockholms vackraste karl.
Designer
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.
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