Everywhere a Voice Invites Us...

Unlike other well-known female painters of the time, Beda Stjernschantz had to work in order to support herself. She could only afford to stay in Paris for one year. She arrived there in 1891 and enrolled at the Académie Colarossi. Magnus Enckell became Stjernschantz's tutor, as a result of which she embraced Symbolist ideas. Everywhere a Voice Invites Us... was painted on the island of Vorms on the Estonian coast. The title is a quote from the Song of Finland. The painting depicts the state of innocence that is synonymous with childhood. The song of one child, and the music of another, fill the landscape. Even in the Romantic era, music was considered the most beautiful and purest of all the arts.