Salon genre scene with a beautiful lute player in a noble interior was executed in the last quarter of 19th century by good listed French-German genre painter Jean Lulvès (1833 Muehlhausen/ Alsace - 1889 Berlin). The artist created mainly decorative pieces for large rooms and palaces, for exemple, for the Coronation Hall in the Kremlin, Moscow, and the banking House of Krause in Berlin, and used often historical motifs, where he focused on the 16th to the 18th century.

Lulvès first earned his living as an engineer in France, Belgium and Germany. Since 1862 he studied painting under Carl Steffeck in Berlin, in 1863/64 he was an employee of Baron Moller on the island of Ösel. From there, he went to Moscow and participated in the decoration of the Aleksander Nevsky Hall in the Kremlin. In 1865 he was in Rome. He returned to Berlin. Here, he took over the design of the ballroom of Bankhaus Krause with wax color images. In 1862, he regularly had the Academy exhibitions with genre pictures.His works: " The painter Clouet in the Louvre", " The clandestine reunion", "The assassination of the chapel master", "The mort of Riccios", "Courtlyy scene" (homage to the young Infante), "Musician youth", "Lioness with cub " , "The puppets " (Museum Mulhouse, i.E.), Petit lever (City Museum Königsberg). The appearance is frequently reproduced "Zoo visitors before the monkey house in Berlin". In addition he worked for "Illustrated woman newspaper", Sakthi family and as s an illustrator for A. of carrier "German art", illustrated newspaper (Leipzig).

Literature: Adolf Rosenberg: Die Berliner Malerschule 1819–1879, Berlin 1879.Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon, Leipzig 1882, S.344.Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19.Jahrhunderts,Bd.I,2. Dresden 1891.Thieme-Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künste, Bd.23, Leipzig 1992, S.462/463.

Inscription: signed lower left, on the back of the stretcher - original artist´s label with his name and adress in Berlin.

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

Measurements: unframed w 16 2/3" x h 23" (42,5 x 58,5 cm); framed w 23" x h 31 1/2 " (63,5 x 80 cm)

Condition: in very good condition.