Ernst Josephson
Stockholm 1851 - 1906
The Rapids, Gargilesse, France, 1886/87
Signed Joseph lower right
Oil on panel
26 x 35 cm
10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in
Ernst Josephson was one of the most innovative Swedish painters of the late nineteenth century and a key precursor of Nordic modernism. Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, he continued his studies in Paris in the 1870s, absorbing French realism and the work of artists such as Courbet and Bastien-Lepage.
Throughout the 1880s he…