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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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Materials & quality

Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.