# The Wounded Angel [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIMBERG, Hugo]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 127 × 154 cm ## Commentary During a period of emotional crisis following a serious illness in 1903, Simberg cultivated the themes of death and eternal life, which characterized his later works. Immediately after his illness, he painted the large canvas Wounded Angel \(1903; Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki\), which depicts a blindfolded young angel being carried on a stretcher by two grim-faced boys through a bleak landscape. In a more realistic figure style than he had used in his earlier work, Simberg here meditated on the theme of the expulsion from Paradise. He later re-used the subject in his cathedral murals in Tampere. ## Related artworks - [Autumn I]() - [Death and the Peasant]() - [Frieze on the gallery \(detail\)]() - [Frieze on the gallery \(detail\)]() - [Frieze on the gallery \(detail\)]() - [Frost]() - [Interior of the dome]() - [The Devil in the Rose Bush]() - [The Farmer's Wife and Poor Devil]() - [The Garden of Death]() - [The Wounded Angel]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()