Carl Larsson's watercolor "Required reading"

Carl Larsson's watercolor "Required reading" (1898)

This beautiful watercolor by Carl Larsson was in 1902 in the possession of baron R.F. von Willebrand in Helsinki. Today the "Required reading" is one of the treasures of the Finnish National Gallery.
The boy in the picture is Larsson's own son Pontus, who both had to pose and do the summer reading ...