Continental School, Children at Their Lessons, Oil on Canvas, Europe, 19th c.

Continental School, Children at Their Lessons, Oil on Canvas, Europe, 19th c.

A mid-19th-century Continental European genre painting, c. 1840–1860, depicting two children engaged in a lesson. The highly finished faces, sentimental subject, dark interior, and careful treatment of clothing and objects fit the academic/genre tradition popular in Germany, Austria, France, and neighboring regions during this period.

Possibly Düsseldorf School / circle of Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, or Johann Baptist Reiter; strong resemblance in subject, period and manner. A simalar work having sold in Vienna | Palais Dorotheum, 23.10.2024 Lot 655. $13,000 USD

Oil on canvas, giltwood; Europe, mid 19th century

Framed - Height: 32 inches, Width: 27 inches, Depth: 3.50 inches

Unframed - Height: 20.25 inches, Width: 16 inches

Compares:
Alice Strobl, Johann Baptist Reiter, Vienna 1963, p. 93, no. 283;
Catalogue, Bilder des Lebens, Linz - Grafenegg 1990, p. 85, no. 283;
Lothar Schultes, Johann Baptist Reiter, Salzburg 2013, p. 218 and p. 222.