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The Garden

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Watercolor on paper by Carl Larsson (c.1895-1896). View of the garden at Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn, Dalarna — flower beds, children, and Swedish summer landscape. Part of the series published as Mitt Hem (1899). Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Scholarly Significance

Anchor Carl Larsson's domestic idyll series with The Garden.

Notes

·Lilla Hyttnäs ('Little Forge Cottage') in Sundborn, Dalarna — given to Carl and Karin Larsson 1888.
·Larsson's technique: loose, luminous watercolor with strong drawing; Japanese compositional influence.
·Albums Mitt Hem (1899) became international bestsellers in Scandinavia and Germany.
·The Lilla Hyttnäs images defined an ideal of the Swedish home influencing Scandinavian design aesthetics.