International studio . CARL LARSSON ^*\«^^**^| mi III! ??V i p^ 1 W^ ^- J >,ji. THE artists house IN FALUN (iQIl)BY CARL LARSSON(lu the collection of Carl Piltz, Esq., Stockholm perhaps never more so than within hisown home and in the presence of thehappenings there. It is his smiling andkindly way of looking at home and every-day life that has come to us heavy andmelancholy Swedes as a blessed messageof joy, and that has created a quite un-paralleled understanding between the artistand all his Swedish public. To him maywell be applied what was once said aboutold Gustavus Wasa: he was with
International studio . CARL LARSSON ^*\«^^**^| mi III! ??V i p^ 1 W^ ^- J >,ji. THE artists house IN FALUN (iQIl)BY CARL LARSSON(lu the collection of Carl Piltz, Esq., Stockholm perhaps never more so than within hisown home and in the presence of thehappenings there. It is his smiling andkindly way of looking at home and every-day life that has come to us heavy andmelancholy Swedes as a blessed messageof joy, and that has created a quite un-paralleled understanding between the artistand all his Swedish public. To him maywell be applied what was once said aboutold Gustavus Wasa: he was with theKingdom, and the Kingdom with him wellsatisfied. 00000 Two entirely different kinds of dangerthreatened Larssons artistic career fromthe very outset. One was his dire poverty,which, even late in the days of his opulence,he could not speak about without shudder-ing, and which nearly caused him to breakdown in misery and despair. The otherwas the means of livelihood that was offeredto him in book-illustrating, in which noartistic quality was demanded, and that led him into a m
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