Carl Larsson · 1896
Breakfast Under the Big Birch
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Larsson's family at breakfast in their Sundborn garden under a great birch — the founding image of the cosy Scandinavian home aesthetic. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Up to 16 × 10 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Breakfast Under the Big Birch
Carl Larsson and his wife Karin transformed an old cottage in the Dalarna village of Sundborn into the founding visual template for the cosy Scandinavian home aesthetic that still dominates Nordic interiors today. Breakfast Under the Big Birch (1896) shows the Larsson family at a wooden table laid for morning, under a vast birch in the garden — children scattered, plants overflowing, light everywhere. The painting is in Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; reproductions hang in millions of Swedish kitchens.
Carl Larsson
Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot, a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.
All Carl Larsson prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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