Finnmark Landscape
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Balke visited the barren plateau of the Finnmark region in northeastern Norway in 1832, but this painting is thought to have been executed some thirty years later. He probably developed the Romantic penchant for depicting lonely trees set in stark landscapes after seeing paintings by Dahl and Friedrich in the 1830s.
There is a larger variant of this subject (current whereabouts unknown) animated by two figures in the costume of the Sami, the indigenous people of Finnmark.
There is a larger variant of this subject (current whereabouts unknown) animated by two figures in the costume of the Sami, the indigenous people of Finnmark.
Artwork Details
- Title: Finnmark Landscape
- Artist: Peder Balke (Norwegian, Helgøya, Nes 1804–1887 Oslo (Kristiania))
- Date: ca. 1860
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 13 3/4 × 20 1/2 in. (34.9 × 52 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Asbjorn Lunde
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings