"Modersglädje" (Maternal Delight)
Signed L. Zorn suecos and dated Cadiz febr. -82. Watercolour, heightening white and india ink on paper (oval) 65 x 49 cm. Original frame by W.A. Smith, Carver and Gilder, London.
Wholesale dealer Edvard Casparsson.
Managing director Axel Jacobsen.
Mrs. Bessie Jacobsen.
The Collection of Bo and Margareta Lindh, Stockholm.
Konstföreningen, Stockholm, 1882.
Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, no. 1417.
Baltiska utställningen, Malmö, 15 May - 4 October 1914, no. 345.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Invigningsutställning. Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn", March - April 1916, no. 3.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Anders Zorn. Minnesutställning", 1 March - 6 April 1924, no. 242.
Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna, Stockholm, "Mitt bästa konstverk. Utställning anordnad av rädda barnen", 1941, no. 299.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Opponenterna av 1885. Utställning till sextioårsminnet av det första moderna genombrottet i svensk konst", 16 March - 16 May 1945, no. 536.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA, "Zorn. Paintings, Graphics and Sculpture", 27 March - 6 June 1986, no. 28.
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, "Zorn. Paintings, Graphics and Sculpture", 15 June - 10 August 1986, no. 28.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, "Zorn. Paintings, Graphics and Sculpture", 14 September - 26 October 1986, no. 28.
Zornsamlingarna, Mora, 1989.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Anders Zorn -Till ögats fröjd och nationens förgyllning", 15 September - 11 December 1994, no. 2.
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, "Anders Zorn -Till ögats fröjd och nationens förgyllning", 26 December 1994 - 26 March 1995, no. 2.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Ernst Josephson. Målare och diktare", 12 October 2001 - 13 January 2002, no. 175.
Ernst Malmberg, "Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn. En återblick", 1919, mentioned p. 86 and illustrated half page.
Karl Asplund, "Anders Zorn. His life and work", 1921, mentioned p. 15.
Tor Hedberg, "Anders Zorn. Ungdomstiden 1860-1893", SAK 1923, mentioned p. 45 and illustrated full page, p. 44.
Nils Lago-Lengquist, 'En konstälskares hem i Djursholm. Direktör och fru Axel Jacobsen', article in "Svenska hem i ord och bilder", 1930, mentioned p. 50 and illustrated p.48.
Bo G. Wennberg, "Mitt bästa konstverk. En konsthistorisk översikt från utställningen 1941 å Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna", 1942, mentioned pp. 129-130 and illustrated p.125.
"Konst i svenska hem", vol. II, N:o 5, catalogued p. 253 under collection 379: "Fru Bessie Jacobsen, Narvavägen 35, Stockholm".
Gerda Boëthius, "ZORN. Tecknaren. Målaren. Etsaren. Skulptören", 1949, mentioned pp. 98, 103 and 506, illustrated full page, Fig. 23 and catalogued p. 538.
Gerda Böethius, "Anders Zorn. An international Swedish artist. His life and work", 1954, mentioned p. 17 and illustrated full page, Pl. 26.
Hans Henrik Brummer, "ZORNMCMLXXXIX", 1989, mentioned pp. 43-44 and illustrated full page in colour, p. 44.
Hans Henrik Brummer, "Till ögats fröjd och nationens förgyllning -Anders Zorn", 1994, mentioned pp. 59-60 and illustrated full page in colour, p. 58.
Johan Cederlund, "Zorn i Spanien", 2009, mentioned p. 43 and illustrated full page in colour, p. 47.
The motif was also executed as an etching the same year (Asplund 4-6, Hjert & Hjert 4-6).