Important Winter Sale presents Carl Larsson "The Rocking Chair"

Carl Larsson

”The Rocking Chair”

The term-time house in Falun

In 1907 Carl and Karin Larsson bought a house at Blindgatan 48 in Falun. The house was remodeled and furnished. This is where they lived during the winters together with their children who attended schools in town. Their son Pontus was in his last year of school and their daughters Lisbeth, Brita and Kersti attended Valhalla, a girl’s elementary school.

The house was dubbed ‘the term-time house’, and a year later Carl Larsson also had the opportunity to acquire the neighbouring plot, with a little one-room cottage with a kitchen that became his etching workshop. In later years it is also where the artist had his bedchamber.

When the house on Blindgatan was remodeled an extension was built, which became a salon and a studio. As such the room functioned both as a place for Carl Larsson to work and as a living room for the family. Through the artist’s richly detailed paintings of his surroundings we are able to catch a glimpse of what life looked like at the Larsson family house in Falun.

In "Åt solsidan" Carl Larsson writes about the term-time house:

“There, in the studio, we sit at leisure in the eve; I read aloud to my wife, or the girls play the piano, at present even four-handed. During the daytime I occupy myself with destroying the little watercolours that I had previously painted so vigorously and happily somewhere, under guidance by nature itself”.