The Artist's Fiancée

Additional texteExhibition text: Tekla Lindeström (1856–1937) was a wood engraver and worked with Carl Larsson on many illustration assignments. Like Larsson, she got engaged in Grez to another member of the Swedish artist colony, the painter Karl Nordström. She was portrayed at work by her fiancé. The small cloth pinned to her hair is a screen against the daylight from the window