Oil/canvas. Signed lower right.

68 x 51 cm. Framed : 101 x 84 cm (heavy gold stucco frame).

Portrait of a young woman with partially bare breasts and a sideways gaze in front of a forest and meadow landscape.

Austrian genre and portrait painter and Orientalist, studied at the Vienna Academy under Griepenkerl, pupil of the special school for Oriental and history painting under Leopold Carl Müller, was active in Cairo and Vienna every six months from 1896. All lots with a limit (starting price) of at least €2,000 are checked against the Art Loss Register database.

Literature : Thieme/Becker.