...The Cloud may at first sight seem to symbolize an ideal summer's day, but its mood is in fact more complex, marked by an undefined tension and a sense of a presence beyond what we are able to see.... (http://tativille.blogspot.nl/2007/07/scandinavians-in-minnesota-sweet-land.html) A few dominant forms give this landscape real impact: the grassy slope, the path that winds its way up between the dark, uniform trees, and the round white of the cloud that dominates the blue sky. The sky is also crossed by thin wisps of cloud that pull the composition together. Starting in 1894, Prince Eugen spent his summers on Tyresö, where this painting was done. The artist has taken the motif of valley, path, some large trees, and a vast cloud and condensed it into a Symbolist vision. It was finished in the summer of 1895. The painting in the Gothenburg Museum of Art was the first of a total of six of the same scene. The image has a clarity of form and richness of color, but at the same time fires the imagination. The trees seem to be almost live individuals. What is behind the crest of the hill? Where would the path take us? The painting can be read as an allegory of life and the uncertainty of human fate. Kristoffer Arvidsson from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014 [http://emp-web-34.zetcom.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=7937&viewType=detailView]