Anders Zorn (1860-1920), Sweden's greatest artist, attended the Royal Academy Art School in Stockholm.  In his lifetime, Zorn created 289 graphic works, which were an essential feature of his artistry.  He was an eminent "peintre-graveur" or painter-etcher.  As such, he worked on original graphic art and did not reproduce his original paintings.  'Thus the challenge which faced Zorn was not to make his etchings an exact copy of the subject, but to find equivalents which - figuratively speaking - derive from the very attributes of the art of etching.'

Zorn's work leaned heavily toward Impressionism.  In his portraits, in Parisian street scenes and in views of his surroundings of his home at Mora in Dalecarlia, his swift and elegant Impressionistic technique found its fullest scope.  He became known for his work with peasants and his best work were his etchings, done in a technique of more or less parallel lines across the plate, which was the counterpart of his rapid manner of painting.