Merioki – Finland

Merioki – Finland, painted in 1904 and held at the National Museum in Warsaw, represents a return to Finnish coastal territory two years after Ciągliński's initial Finnish travels. Merioki—possibly a variant of a Finnish place name—appears alongside Terioki in the coastal north, suggesting Ciągliński explored the Gulf of Finland coastline in some detail across multiple visits. His sustained interest in Finnish landscape reflects the broader European fascination with Nordic scenery during this period, a fascination fuelled partly by the international profile of Scandinavian painting at major exhibitions.

Finnish coastal landscape typically combines sandy shores or rocky foreshore with dense pine background and the cool luminosity of the Gulf of Finland. Ciągliński's handling would foreground the chromatic character of this northern coastal light—silvery, diffuse, with muted colour temperature compared to Mediterranean subjects.