Breakfast

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.
Flickan med sin vällingskål har dukat upp frukost också för sin docka. Silverskeden i hennes hand vittnar om ett välmående hem. Bilden uttrycker tidens borgerliga barnideal – präglat av oskuld och sentimentalitet. Amalia Lindegren var under sin livstid en mycket uppskattad konstnär och flera av hennes genrebilder förvärvades till det nya Nationalmuseum. Den här målningen inköptes 1866, samma år som museet öppnade. De många reproduktionerna efter hennes bilder vittnar om hennes stora popularitet i samtiden.