Image: Breakfast (Amalia Lindegren) - Nationalmuseum - 17996

Description: This little girl with her bowl of gruel has also set out breakfast for her doll. The silver spoon in her hand tells us this is a well-to-do home. The picture expresses the contemporary middleclass ideal of childhood – one of innocence and sentimentality. Amalia Lindegren was a much appreciated artist in her lifetime, and several of her genre pictures were acquired for the new Nationalmuseum. This one was bought in 1866, the year the Museum opened. The many reproductions of her paintings testify to the great popularity she enjoyed in her day.
Title: Breakfast
Credit: Nationalmuseum
Author: Amalia Lindegren
Permission: The author died in 1891, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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