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Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Old Woman and the Cat. Gallen-Kallela painted this uncompromising depiction of the common people in his youth, shocking the contemporary public. It shows an old "sheep-woman" of Salo clumsily demonstrating her affection to a cat. Gallen-Kallela described the model as follows: "The hard outdoor life had made her skin tough and had calloused her hands, and splayed her feet... She was a veritable autumnal rustic being, whose limbs were in no way pampered by indoor living." |   
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