Summer Pleasure

Is it a photo? Or a movie still? No, it's a watercolor produced by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn!

Anders Zorn married Emma Lamm in 1885. After spending their honeymoon in eastern Europe and Turkey, they returned to Sweden in 1886, spending time with Emma's family at Dalarö, where this watercolor was produced.

The painting depicts Emma standing in a white dress and hat, waiting on the edge of a wooden pier beside the water, as their friend Carl Gustav Dahlström approaches in a rowing boat. The reflective glassy surface of the water is rippling in a breeze, under cloudy gray skies. The figures, pier, boat, and sea are finely rendered, almost as if the work was made in oil paint, showing Zorn's skill as a watercolorist. Less attention is paid to the other side of the lake, sketched roughly in the background. 

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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