Carl Larsson: Young Woman in a Straw Hat in the Garden

This impressionistic garden scene, painted before Carl Larsson began his famous Sundborn watercolour years, shows a young woman in a floral summer dress and wide-brimmed yellow hat half-reclining in a garden chair among summer blossom. The loose, painterly brushwork and sun-drenched palette speak of French influence — a different, more atmospheric Larsson. An unusual postcard for collectors of early Swedish Plein-air painting. Browse the full Carl Larsson collection.