Beschreibung:

“Rokokoidyll”. Rococo idyll. An elegant gentleman in a red Rococo suit seated under a chestnut tree by a forest lake, autumn. 1884. Signed at the bottom to the left Carl Larsson (indistinctly) and at the bottom to the right Carl Larsson Watercolour on parchment. Fan-shaped. Visible size 30×60 cm. Ulwa Neergaard, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Carl Larsson no. 171 in “Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna”, Stockholm 1999. After years of failure in Paris, where Carl Larsson had attempted to exhibit at the Salon without any luck, a turning point occurred in 1882, when he was introduced to the small town of Grez-sur-Loing about 70 kilometres south of Paris. Here he met his future wife, the artist Karin, and here their first daughter Suzanne was born. Grez was a charming town and became a gathering place for Scandinavian artists from especially Sweden and Norway. The Larsson family lived there for about 3 years. The present watercolour was made here. Here Carl Larsson threw himself into nature and outdoor painting. The works of this period reveal a freshness and ease, and Larsson painted watercolours with very simple motifs, including locals who worked in their lush vegetable gardens with pumpkins and cabbage plants. He often portrayed a random slice of life with a lonely figure as part of the décor, like in this watercolour with the elegant gentleman in a Rococo suit. A characteristic of Larsson’s Grez watercolours is also a mixture of Japanese decorative art and Rococo era pastel colours, which can be seen in the work here.
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