Boys Playing on the Shore

Painting by Albert Edelfelt

Boys Playing on the Shore
sv: Lekande pojkar på stranden, fi: Leikkiviä poikia rannalla

Artist	Albert Edelfelt
Year	1884
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	90 cm × 107.5 cm (35 in × 42.3 in)
Location	Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
Owner	Republic of Finland
Website	www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/431018

Boys Playing on the Shore (also Children Playing on the Shore) is a painting by Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt completed in 1884.^[1]^[2]

The painting depicts three boys playing on a shore with a self-made bark boat [sv].^[2]

Albert Edelfelt painted the picture in Haikko, Porvoo, Finland from August to October in 1884. The painting was meant to be put on display in Stockholm in 1885, but this did not occur. The painting was bought from Galerie Georges Petit in Paris for 5 000 francs by count Wladimir Scheremetjeff for Empress Dagmar. It was bought in 1930 in Leningrad by art dealer W. Sjöberg from Helsinki and then sold to Ateneum for 85 000 marks.^[2]

The painting is on display at Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland.^[3]

Studies

Open sea off Haikko, a study for Boys Playing on the Shore
Sketch for Boys Playing on the Shore
Study for Boys Playing on the Shore

References

^ "Finnish National Gallery - Work: Boys Playing on the Shore (Children Playing on the Shore)". www.kansallisgalleria.fi. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Lekande pojkar på stranden I". Albert Edelfelts brev. Elektronisk brev- och konstutgåva (Albert Edelfelt's letters. Digital publication) (in Swedish). Maria Vainio-Kurtakko & Henrika Tandefelt & Elisabeth Stubb, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 2020.
^ ateljé, Albert Edelfelts. "Folklivsskildringar | Albert Edelfelts ateljé" (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-03-16.

Albert Edelfelt

Paintings

Historic	March of the Björneborg Regiment Burnt Village Queen Blanche Duke Karl Insulting the Corpse of Klaus Fleming [sv] Horatius and Lydia [uk] Christ and Mary Magdalene, a Finnish Legend [sv]
Landscape	Kaukola Ridge at Sunset The Nyländska Jaktklubben Harbour in Helsinki [sv]
Folk life	Conveying the Child's Coffin (A Child's Funeral) Old Woman with a Chip Basket [sv] Women Outside the Church at Ruokolahti [sv] La laitière [sv] At Sea [sv] At the Gate (Village of Porras) [sv]
"Sunshine pieces"	Boys Playing on the Shore
Urban life	Reading Parisienne [sv] Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Portraits	Female Nude, Study [sv] Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt Portrait of the Artist's Wife Ellan Edelfelt [sv] Portrait of the Artist's Sister Ellen Edelfelt [sv]