3-050-205 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

At the Farm, Ulvin, 1889. Additional Info: The painting depicts a typical Eastern Norwegian farmyard on a warm summer’s eve. The workday is over, and a horse rests beneath a large, shady tree, while the man in the centre of the picture is having a chat with a woman through an open window in the overgrown garden, roses are blooming. Gerhard Munthe has meticulously depicted the details of this scene and captured the special lighting. The viewer is guided effortlessly into the picture from the tree on the left, through the horse and toward the man stavnding by the house. The viewer’s gaze is then led onward to the sunlit left end of the house, and we can barely make out the outhouse all the way on the left. The colouring is subdued, with an emphasis on nuances of green in the vegetation and of grey in the outside walls of the house.