For Carl Larsson, art was his way out of poverty. Like so many artists of his time, he went to France where, in 1882, he joined an artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing, near Paris, and met Karin Bergöö who became his wife. In 1885/6 they moved back to Stockholm to live in one of the now carefully preserved C18 wooden houses like these at Åsogatan 145; it was here that he painted his well-known snowy street scene.