Masterfully portrait of a young lady from Viennese society was executed in the late 19th century by good listed  Austrian portrait, landscape, still life and war painter Leopold Widlizka (also Widliczka (1870 in Vienna - 1940 New York, USA).

Widlizka began his studies at the Graphic Teaching and Research Institute under Joseph-Eugen Hörwarter and was a guest student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in October 1889, and was a regular student from 1891. In 1892 he moved to the Academy in Munich and worked under Nikolaus Gysis. He was influenced by the circles around Franz von Lenbach and Hermann von Kaulbach. In 1899 Widlizka was back in Vienna, where he exhibited a child's portrait in the Künstlerhaus. He mainly painted landscapes, especially motifs from the Vienna Prater and still lifes.

During the First World War Widlizka was a war painter and a member of the Imperial and Royal War Press Office. In 1916 he was a member and chairman of the Albrecht Dürer Association. In 1922 he moved to the United States, where his brother worked as an engraver in New York. Nevertheless, he remained connected to his homeland, and in 1924 he was mentioned as a member of the Viennese art community. 

Works: Family Fate, 1918, oil on canvas, Military History Museum, Vienna

Literature: Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1974, Volume 2.

Inscription: signed on the edge , lower right.

Technique: Pastell on cardboard, luxuriousy veneered wooden frame with hand-carved wood gilded oval. From original period.

Measurements: only image in oval w 21 1/4" x h 25 1/4" (54 x 64 cm), unframed 23 1/42 x 26 1/8" (59 x 71,5 cm), framed 29 1/3" x 34 1/4"(74,5 x 87 cm)

Condition: good.