Oil on canvas
45.5x68.5 cm
Signed lower right: Kitty L. Kielland
Inscribed with place and dated lower right: “Kvalben. 1883”
Estimate
NOK 120,000–150,000USD 12,600–15,700EUR 11,400–14,200
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Painted in 1883, this work documents Kitty Kielland’s first sketching campaign at Kvalbein in Jæren, a location that became central to her oeuvre. The painting was executed during a defining period in Kielland's career when she lived and worked in Paris (1879–1889), sharing a studio with Harriet Backer.
The canvas stencil on the reverse from the Parisian art supplier Calteaux-Bargue confirms that the material was purchased in France before being brought to Norway for en plein air studies in the summer of 1883. Works from this specific trip informed several of her major landscape compositions now held in public museum collections.
