Kreeta Haapasalo Playing the Kantele in a Peasant Cottage  1868

[i]In this painting by Robert Wilhelm Ekman, a group of attentive listeners has gathered around a woman playing the kantele. In addition to the mistress of the house, there are female members of the gentry with their children, a fisherman mending his nets and a pipe-smoking soldier. The melody has also captured the attention of the daughter of the house, busy by the cupboa...