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Girl's Face, from Spring Fresco of Jusélius Mausoleum
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865-1931)
1905
- Medium
- Mezzotint in black on cream wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 18 × 13.8 cm (7 1/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Plate: 18.4 × 14.3 cm (7 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35 × 22.5 cm (13 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Finland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Avery Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In 1901–03 Fritz Arthur Jusélius had an elaborately decorated Gothic Revival mausoleum built as a final resting place for his daughter, who had died from tuberculosis at the age of 11. The interior frescoes of the seasons were done by Symbolist artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, but they were destroyed in a 1931 fire. Some preparatory sketches survive, however, in addition to this luminous mezzotint of a hopeful young girl, her eyes raised heavenward.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
