[5] Like other Simberg works, the atmosphere is melancholic: the angelic central figure with her bandaged forehead and bloodied wing, the sombre clothing of her two youthful bearers.

In Hugo Simberg's time, the park was a popular spot for leisure-time activities among the working classes.

[7] A number of Finnish artists praised The Wounded Angel when it first displayed in 1903 at the Ateneum autumn exhibition.

In a letter to his sister Blenda, Simberg wrote on 10 October 1903: "I wanted to share the good news with you – I was not rejected this year, even though the jury was terribly strict.

He says that it gives him the impression that I had stood alone in a little cabin, huddled in the midst of a great forest, and had painted in complete indifference to the outside world.