In the Corner. From A Home (26 watercolours)

In the Corner. From A Home belongs to the celebrated series of 26 domestic watercolors published as the book Ett hem in 1899, though this particular work is dated to 1895 — the series was assembled across several years before publication. This image depicts one of the carefully designed corners of Lilla Hyttnäs at Sundborn, the home Carl and Karin Larsson created together in the Dalarna countryside. The 'corner' as a compositional subject was a deliberately modest choice: not the grand salon or formal dining room but a nook, a reading corner, a staircase landing. This humility of subject was characteristic of the Larsson domestic philosophy, which insisted that every part of a home could be beautiful if attended to with care and intelligence. The watercolor medium suited the transparency and freshness that the couple wanted their domestic imagery to project, avoiding the heaviness of academic oil painting while achieving genuine pictorial quality.

Transparent watercolor with the careful integration of drawn and painted elements characteristic of the Ett hem series. Larsson exploits the corner's spatial geometry to create an interior perspective, with the white paper ground providing the luminous wall surfaces of the Sundborn interior.