''Out into the World'' is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by the Finnish artist
Maria Wiik
Maria Catharina Wiik (3 August 1853 – 19 June 1928) was a Finnish painter. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits.
Biography
Wiik was born in Helsinki. She was the daughter of architect Erik ...
in the
Ateneum.
[painting record]
on museum website
This painting shows two women in an interior, with one seated at a table looking up from her book as her companion adjusts her dress before leaving. The muted tones are accentuated by a drawn curtain.
This painting, which won a bronze medal at the
Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, is considered her masterpiece. This painting was included in the 1905 book ''
Women Painters of the World''.
Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
References
on
Europeana website
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1889 paintings
Paintings in the Ateneum
Finnish paintings