Masterfully detailled genre painting with musketeers playing card was executed in the end of 19th century by famous and good quoted Munich genre , portrait painter and illustrator Albert Friedrich Schroeder (1854 Dresden - 1939 Munich). He studied by Ch.Verlat and F. Pauwels. His genre works situated in museums of Duisburg and Magdeburg, Munich and in prominent private collections on Europe, USA and Russia.

Literature: F.v.Boetticher "Malerwerke des 19 Jahrhunderts"; Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart";"Münchner Maler" IV, 1983

Inscription: signed and titled Mn (München) upper left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Luxuriousy original gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w /35 " x h 28 3/4 " ( 89 x 73 cm), framed w 42 128" x h 36 2/3" (108 x 93 cm)

Condition: in very good condition.