Carl Fredrik Hill

Originally in the collections of the artist's sister Mrs. Marie Louise Klason (née Hill), Lund/Stockholm.
Thence by descent/inheritance within the family to the present owner.

Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, "Svenskt måleri 1800-1885", February 1921, cat no 121 (under the title "Månsken över Barrskog").
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911. Minnesutställning", September - October 1949, cat no 38 (at that time in the collections of Dr. Torben Klason, Linköping with the additional information in the catalogue "After study from Sweden. Private collection").

(Probably) Viggo Loos, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", 1945, catalogued under the section "Kap. IX Carl Fredrik Hill", page 339 (" 'Månsken', 54 x 44. In the collections of Doctor T. Klason, Linköping").
Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst", 1951, catalogued under the section "Svenska motiv. 60-talets slut t.o.m. sommaren 1873", page 304, illustrated/reproduced, full page, Pl. 18.

Carl Fredrik Hill was a Swedish artist born in Lund. Hill is considered one of Sweden's formost landscape painters. His fate and artistry are perhaps the strangest but most interesting in Swedish art history. Born in an academic home in Lund, despite his father's protests, he managed to begin studies at the Art Academy in Stockholm and then traveled to France, where he came in contact with Corot's landscape painting. He found his inspiration in Barbizon and later on the River Oise, in Luc-sur-Mer and Bois-le-Roi. He painted frantically with the hope of being accepted into the Salon de Paris. Already during his student years, he struggled with an incipient mental illness and at the age of 28 he was taken to the mental hospital in Passy. During the hospital stay he began his rich production of drawings and then continued with the production after his return to Lund, where he was cared for by his family for the rest of his life. In thousands drawings, a fantasy world of figures scenes appears. Today, Hill's river landscape and flowering fruit trees from the years in France, together with the visionary drawings from the period of illness in Lund, have received great recognition. His art depicts a loneliness and longing that is easy to get caught up in. He is mainly represented at the Malmö Museum and at the National Museum in Stockholm.