"I ritskolan" (= In drawing school)
Signed H at the folder against the wall. Panel 33 x 39.5 cm. Period frame.
Earlier in Director Gustaf Fredrikssons collection, sold at the auction after his death.
Bukowski Auktioner AB, Auction 391, 8th - 11th Nov 1972, Catalogue no 46, illustrated plate 14.
The Royal Swedish Academy of fine arts, Stockholm, Sweden. The artists retrospective exhibition, 1898.
Gerda Cederblom, "Pehr Hilleström som kulturskildrare", 1927, Volume I, listed in the register, catalogue no 31.
Allegedly, the boy is the artist's son Carl Petter Hilleström.