Carl Hedelin was one of a number of watercolourists put in the shade by the dazzling works of Anders Zorn. This portrait, probably of his fellow artist Mina Carlson-Bredberg, demonstrates his skill in the same kind of virtuoso technique as Zorn excelled in. Hedelin liked to depict modern life, and his image of Carlson- Bredberg can probably be regarded as just as much a reflection of its times as a regular portrait.