# Girl's Face, from Spring Fresco of Jusélius Mausoleum

- By: Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865-1931)
- Date: 1905
- Medium: Mezzotint in black on cream wove paper
- Classification: Print
- 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
- Credit line: The Avery Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11712)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/303477a5-489f-4474-5ec2-aa734a2ec2f9/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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