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The Artist's Mother
This is the artist’s mother in a remarkable, enigmatic portrait. Intimate and monumental at the same time. On the one hand a spitting image, on the other a sculpture in a dreamlike landscape seemingly situated beyond time and space. The portrait is dated 1896, the year before Akseli Gallen-Kallela cast her as the main figure in one of his most famous paintings, Lemminkäinen’s Mother – a motif insp…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1896
- 1896
Provenance
- Purchase 1914
Identifier
- NM 1773
- 18777
Extent
- Mått 33 x 29 cm
Format
- Tempera på duk
Year
- 1896
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:12.273Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:42.600Z