Girl's Face, from Spring Fresco of Jusélius Mausoleum
- Medium
- Mezzotint in black on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 18 × 13.8 cm (7 1/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Plate: 18.4 × 14.3 cm (7 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35 × 22.5 cm (13 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Aquatint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
aquatintprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
In 1901–03 Fritz Arthur Jusélius had an elaborately decorated Gothic Revival mausoleum built as a final resting place for his daughter, who had died from tuberculosis at the age of 11. The interior frescoes of the seasons were done by Symbolist artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, but they were destroyed in a 1931 fire. Some preparatory sketches survive, however, in addition to this luminous mezzotint of a hopeful young girl, her eyes raised heavenward.
