Profile portrait of a smiling Peasnt girl in Tyrolian costume with the hat adorned with Edelweiss, it was executed by popular Munich genre and portrait female painter Emma von Müller (1859 Innsbruck-1925 Munich), pupil of Defregger, famous for her portraits of Munich and Tyrolian women.
Literature : Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999;Prof.H.Fuchs " Die Österreichischen Maler ", Vienna, 1975.
Inscription: signed upper left.
Technique: oil on wood, original period frame.
Measurements: unframed w 8 1/2" x h 11 2/3" (21,7 x 29,5 cm); framed w 14" x h 17" (35,5 x 43 cm).
Condition: in very good condition. |