Salon genre painting created  in 1890s by good listed austrian-german genre and landscape painter , sculptor and lithograph Robert Poetzelberger (1856 Vienna - 1930 Reichenau by Bodensee).He studied in Vienna Art Academy by Leopold Carl Mueller and later in Italy. From 1880 to 1892 he settled in Munich . From 1892 to 1899 ( our painting was created) he was Professor in the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and from 1899 to 1926 - worked in Stuttgart. Since 1897 he was a member of renown Union " Vienna Sezession".

Literature:    Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary" (in German), Leipzig, 1999;  Prof. H.Fuchs "Die Österreichische Maler des 19 und 20 Jahrhunderts", Vienna, 1975; AKL Index; date base artnet.com

Inscription: signed  lower right

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period  frame

Measurements: unframed w 24" x h 45" (72  x 61,5 cm), framed  38 1/5" x  59" (94  x 83,5 cm)

Condition:   very good