Colorfully genre painting with lovers in lamplight was executed by famous Lithuanian of jewish origin Nikolai ( Nicolaus) Schattenstein ( 1877 by Kovno in Lithuania, now Whiterussia - 1954 New York).This work was executed at the Viennese Artist Union in 1906 (see label on the back of the stretcher).

After study he moved to Berlin , where exhibited in 1906 and recieved Michael-Beer-Prize at the Academy. Schattenstein was well-known portrait painter in Germany, Vienna, created portraits of aristocraty and famous European personalities: Raoul Auernheimer, Mrs. Regina Vanderbilt, Lew Trotzki. His works are in museums of Warshaw and Vienna. To 1939 he emigrated to USA, where exhibited : 1948 by French & Co. in New York ; Memory - Exhibition in 1955 in Schoneman Gallery, in 1956 in the Duveen-Graham Gallery, Empire Theater in New York .

Literature: Fiedling "Dictionary of American painters", Thieme-Becker "Allgemeines Künstler von Antike bis zur Gegenwart".

Inscription: signed  and inscr. Roma lower right; on the back of the stretcher - the exhibition label of the Viennese Artist Union Kuensltlerhaus with inventory number and dating 1906.

Technique:  oil on canvas. Original period frame

Measurements: unframed w 39 1/3" x h 27 1/2" (100 x 70 cm), framed w 42 1/2" x h 34 2/3" (108 x 78 cm)

Condition: in very good condition