Oil/canvas. Signed lower right. Probably around 1875.

52 x 37 cm. Framed : 73 x 57 cm.

Children by the stream in spring near the bridge in front of the houses. Slight traces of age.

If Adolf Lins, then: animal, landscape, genre and portrait painter (1856 Kassel - 1927 Düsseldorf), studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under F. Brütt, member of the Willingshausen painters' colony. Active in Düsseldorf, Willingshausen, Nierst, Meinberg, Röllshausen. Represented in the museums of Düsseldorf, Neue Galerie Kassel, University of Marburg, Rudolfinum Prague.

Literature : Thieme/Becker.