Foto: Per-Åke Persson / Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

Foto: Per-Åke Persson / Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

Foto: Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

Foto: Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

Foto: Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

Foto: Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

Foto: Per-Åke Persson / Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

Foto: Per-Åke Persson / Nationalmuseum, Public Domain

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The Vine

Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919)

Artist/Maker

Artist: Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919)

DatesSigned: Sign. 1884

Material / Technique

Watercolour. Diptych, in one frame with NMB 399

Dimensionsh x w: Mått 60 x 92 cm h x w x d: Ram 103 x 218 x 13 cm

Inventory numberNMB 400

AcqusitionBequeathed 1920 by Mr Herman Friedländer

Other titlesTitle (sv): Vinet Title (en): The Vine

DescriptionDescription: The Vine can be seen as an allegory of love in a garden – the woman harvests grapes for wine that intoxicates the man. The watercolours show Carl Larsson combining Rococo pastiche with plein air painting’s fidelity to nature. This genre can be interpreted in light of his love of the 18th century and his extensive illustrations for Anna Maria Lenngren’s poems "Samlade skaldeförsök", which he created in Grez, commissioned by Albert Bonnier, in 1883– 84.

Collection

Paintings (Paintings)

MaterialWatercolour

TechniquePainting

External links

Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18574706

Additional texteDescription: The Vine can be interpreted as a light-hearted allegory of love – the woman harvests the grapes for the wine that intoxicates the man. With his great technical virtuosity, Carl Larsson was excellently equipped to succeed in the Neo-Rococo genre, which relied to a great extent on the ability to paint with illusory brilliance. The Vine was bought by Herman Friedländer when it was shown at the Opponent Exhibition Vid Seinens strand (On the Seine River Bank) in Stockholm in 1885. Friedländer later lent it to the World’s Fair in Paris in 1889.