Crayfishing, Carl Larsson

Puzzle size 73.7 x 50.8cm Crayfishing 1895 Carl Larsson 1853-1919 Born into poverty, Carl Larsson earned a scholarship at the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts and supported himself in commercial illustration. His career in fine art was lackluster, but this changed when he met his future wife, artist Karin Bergoo. Under her influence he began to produce light, bright watercolours, modest in scale and subject. Karin's father gave the newlyweds a small cottage in the rural village of Sundborn and as their family expanded, Carl delighted in rendering the cottage and its inhabitants in loving, lighthearted watercolours that document the family's idyllic country life. Crayfishing is one in a series of these paintings titled Ett Hem (A Home) which was published in book form in 1899.