Summer Life in the Islets

Summer Life in the Islets

1880

Oil on canvas

Mått 44,50 x 58,00 cm Ram 62,50 x 75,50 x 4,50 cm

GKM 2013-94

Bequest of Gustaf Werner (1859–1948) to the City of Gothenburg. Transferred to the Gothenburg Museum of Art in 2013.

In his summer house in Haiko in the Borgå archipelago outside Helsinki, Albert Edelfelt executed many grandiose and realistic depictions of Finnish people. In addition to these, he made several “sunshine pieces”, as he called the type of painting of which Summer Life in the Islets is an example. Many of the more intimate and lyrical paintings of his family out boating or in the garden were made to be sold in Paris. In the sprit of en plein air painting, he depicted sky, sun and sea, as well as beautifully dressed people.

Göteborg, Göteborgs konstmuseum, 07/09/2013 - 17/11/2013

Patrik Steornoch Maria Vainio-Kurtakkooch Anne-Marie Pennonen och Hanne Selkokari et al., Albert Edelfelt. Modernt konstnärsliv i sekelskiftets Europa, red. Eva Nygårds och Patrik Steorn, Göteborgs konstmuseum och Appell Förlag, Göteborg/Stockholm, 2022., ill. p. 105