By 1880, an artist’s colony was forming in this village on the southern edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, and attracted painters from all over the world.
Larsson
From the maid washing the linen and Cinderella to fashionable homes of prosperous artists in Nordic countries, we fill a lot of cupboards, dressers, sideboards and others.
Keeping the aspidistra flying in the homes of the respectable middle classes, in paintings from Carl Larsson to Paul Signac and Harriet Backer.
Fireplaces and hearths, from a small town in the country, a dozing fisherman’s wife copied by Vincent van Gogh, a fire in a studio, and those in suburban homes.
Paintings by Gustave Courbet, Paul Signac, Marie Bracquemond, Vincent van Gogh, LA Ring, Carl Larsson, Maurice Denis, William McGregor Paxton, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard.
Interior design by the wives of Carl Larsson (Sweden), LA Ring (Denmark), Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian) and others.
Studio interiors from John Ferguson Weir, Cézanne, Bazille, William Merritt Chase, William McGregor Paxton, Olga Boznanska, and Carl Larsson.
From the snowy landscape of Brueghel’s Hunters to Monet’s Magpie, with Pissarro, Signac, Caillebotte and others.
This is the time to get out and admire the blossom on the trees, with the aid of Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Sisley, and above all Vincent van Gogh.
The fall of Icarus, Raphael’s cartoon of the Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Hodler, Larsson, John Constable and others painting anglers.
The Eclectic Light Company 