Carl Olof LarssonSwedish, 1853–1919Mother
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
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- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Carl Larsson was deeply attached to his mother, Johanna, but his difficult childhood had caused some tension in their relationship. In his autobiography, written many years after her death, he notes: “But look at the small watercolour portrait of my mother in her old age, which is now hanging at the Nationalmuseum. Is she not blithe! She loves both her son and everyone else, that ugly, old, biddy. Whom I once thought so fair!”
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- Image: Nationalmuseum — Public Domain Mark 1.0
Meanwhile, in the life of Carl Olof Larsson
The whole life1884–1900
Eight children, the artist’s favourite models
Carl and Karin had eight children: Suzanne (b. 1884), Ulf (1887), Pontus (1888), Lisbeth (1891), Brita (1893), Mats (1894), Kersti (1896) and Esbjörn (1900). Ulf died at eighteen and Mats at the age of two months, and the life of the family became Larsson’s chief subject.
1886–1891
Director of the Valand School in Gothenburg
In 1886 he accepted the post of director of the Valand School of Fine Art in Gothenburg, which he held until 1891. Among his pupils was Ester Almqvist, to whom he dedicated an etching.
21 October 1891
Daughter born: Lisbeth Larsson
10 May 1893
Daughter born: Brita Larsson
27 November 1894
Son born: Mats Larsson
1895–1913
Picture books about home and family
He wrote and illustrated a series of books: De mina (My Loved Ones, 1895), Ett hem (A Home, 1899), Larssons (The Larssons, 1902), Spadarfvet (A Farm, 1906), Åt solsidan (On the Sunny Side, 1910) and Andras barn (Other People’s Children, 1913).
