Le petit chien
Karl Georg Arsenius
(1855 - 1908)
Karl Georg Arsenius was a Swedish artist, who was born in 1855 and died in 1908. He was the brother of John Georg Arsenius who was also an artist.
He was a student at the National Art School of Stockholm from 1870-1880, after which he left for Paris where he studied under Jean-Paul Laurens. From 1886 he based himself in Chantilly, France.
King Oscar II of Sweden was a patron of Arsenius and commissioned many equestrian portraits from the artist.
He won medals for his works in Stockholm in 1885 and at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889.
This sweet painting of a lap dog is full of character. Arsenius has captured the dog beautifully and delicately, seated upon its favourite chair.