International studio . h,during the latter half of the nineteenthcentury, was brought to light in new buildings for the Opera andthe Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm also190 secured large decorative paintings from hishand. Here he entered upon those techni-cally difficult problems which are raisedby the painting of ceilings, and he solvedthem adroitly and brilliantly. a a When Larsson had lived in Stockholmfor ten years he had had enough of thecapital, where his amiable and convivialpersonality was sought after in a way thatcut too much into his working, moved to the simple li


International studio . h,during the latter half of the nineteenthcentury, was brought to light in new buildings for the Opera andthe Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm also190 secured large decorative paintings from hishand. Here he entered upon those techni-cally difficult problems which are raisedby the painting of ceilings, and he solvedthem adroitly and brilliantly. a a When Larsson had lived in Stockholmfor ten years he had had enough of thecapital, where his amiable and convivialpersonality was sought after in a way thatcut too much into his working, moved to the simple little cottage in thevillage of Sundborn, that for the rest of hislife became the subject of his untiring careand thus was transformed into the idealSwedish homestead that kindly and in-vitingly beams towards us from innumer-able water-colours of his hand. These,however, have very little in common withthe soft and subtle paintings in water-colour of the French epoch. Larsson hadlearnt to rely more and more on the line as. \ ^ -^ P:C X c f- X , X -> r-. -/ 7. Q -y >. ^ - ; H-^ 5 o ^y - ^ < z l^^5 THE DRAWINGS OF JEAN DE BOSSCHfiRE


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