# Buffet

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/buffet-rb5c7472cd67f53>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [GALLEN-KALLELA, Akseli](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Pine, carved relief ornament, 129 x 96 x 52 cm

## Commentary

This sideboard with the relief &#34;The tree of good and bad knowledge&#34; was designed by Gallen-Kallela for his own use. He represented the biblical theme of the Garden of Eden in a style combining primitivism and symbolism. Note the divine figure in the centre between the two apple trees, above a male hand, and a feminine hand almost meet.

## Related artworks

- [Aino Myth \(triptych\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/aino-myth-triptych-r7ff5d90def3844>)
- [Aino Myth \(triptych\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/aino-myth-triptych-re2910a039dd3c5>)
- [Boy with a Crow](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/boy-with-a-crow-r81b71b17864591>)
- [Démasquée](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/dmasque-rb41c380ca8632b>)
- [Finland Awake!](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/finland-awake-rba054d76e2eeed>)
- [Flame carpet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/flame-carpet-r5c83ad0bc20bcd>)
- [Forging of Sampo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/forging-of-sampo-r114cafe3317bad>)
- [Forging of the Sampo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/forging-of-the-sampo-r8461e8e6df553c>)
- [Gallen-Kallela Museum: exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/gallen-kallela-museum-exterior-view-rddf277a42fd68e>)
- [Gallen-Kallela Museum: interior](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/gallen-kallela-museum-interior-r97b32ae9205f06>)
- [In the Sauna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/in-the-sauna-r19d823df34a16a>)
- [Koru-Kalevala: opening vignette](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gallen-kallela-akseli-r7cd95bfb840c92/koru-kalevala-opening-vignette-rbd1e6d8d05d27f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)