Kaukola Ridge at Sunset

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Kaukola Ridge at Sunset
sv: Kaukola ås i solnedgång, fi: Kaukolanharju auringonlaskun aikaan
Albert Edelfelt - Kaukola Ridge at Sunset - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist Albert Edelfelt
Year1890
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions116.5 cm× 83 cm(45.9 in× 33 in)
Location Ateneum, Helsinki
Website www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/482255

Kaukola Ridge at Sunset is a painting by Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt completed in 1890. [1] [2] [3]

View from observation tower on Kaukolanharju in 2018 View to NW from Kaukolanharju tower.jpg
View from observation tower on Kaukolanharju in 2018

The painting depicts the view of a mirror-like lake at sunset in Finland. In the foreground are some young pines and a half-uprooted stump. In the middle is a bay with wooded islets. To the left, a ridge runs diagonally across the picture. [2]

Edelfelt painted the picture from June to July 1889 in Tammela, Tavastia, at Saari's estate  [ fi; sv ] – owned by the family of his wife, Ellan de la Chapelle  [ sv ]. The view is from Kaukolanharju  [ fi ] ridge, North West of the straight between Pyhäjärvi  [ fi ] and Kuivajärvi  [ fi ]. [2]

The painting is on display at Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Finnish National Gallery - Work: Kaukola Ridge at Sunset". www.kansallisgalleria.fi. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  2. 1 2 3 "Kaukola ås i solnedgång". Albert Edelfelts brev. Elektronisk brev- och konstutgåva (Albert Edelfelt's letters. Digital publication) (in Swedish). Maria Vainio-Kurtakko & Henrika Tandefelt & Elisabeth Stubb, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 2020.
  3. Edelfelt, Albert. Kaukolanharju auringonlaskun aikaan.