Out into the World is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by the Finnish artist Maria Wiik in the Ateneum.painting record on museum website
This painting shows two women in an interior, with one seated at a table looking up from her book as her companion adjusts her dress before leaving. The muted tones are accentuated by a drawn curtain.
This painting, which won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, is considered her masterpiece.Maria Wiik on website of Academie Julian This painting was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
References
artwork record on Europeana website