Evening Mood

A man sits in a rowboat, holding one oar. He rests his head in his other hand, his arm resting on his knee. He wears a yellow summer hat and a brown suit. We can not see most of the boat, the landscape or what or who he's looking at.

Schjeldrup got her education in Paris and Italy where she had the most success as a genre- and portrait painter. She was commissioned to paint portraits of several important Norwegian figures like the great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Her genre paintings often had motifs from Norwegian nature and everyday situations.