Two young girls and a child full-length in a garden; the youngest seated on a stone bench in white dress and trousers, gold earrings and short fair hair, holding flowers and helping her sister in black-bordered blue dress and jacket and white long johns to make a wreath; the third girl in matching blue dress and holding a basket of flowers over her right arm; flowers and foliage background
Details
JOSEF FISCHER (fl. c. 1850-1860)
Two young girls and a child full-length in a garden; the youngest seated on a stone bench in white dress and trousers, gold earrings and short fair hair, holding flowers and helping her sister in black-bordered blue dress and jacket and white long johns to make a wreath; the third girl in matching blue dress and holding a basket of flowers over her right arm; flowers and foliage background
signed and dated 'Jos: Fischer p 18....58' (lower centre)
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. (111 x 92 mm.), gilt-wood easel frame with foliate borders
Two young girls and a child full-length in a garden; the youngest seated on a stone bench in white dress and trousers, gold earrings and short fair hair, holding flowers and helping her sister in black-bordered blue dress and jacket and white long johns to make a wreath; the third girl in matching blue dress and holding a basket of flowers over her right arm; flowers and foliage background
signed and dated 'Jos: Fischer p 18....58' (lower centre)
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. (111 x 92 mm.), gilt-wood easel frame with foliate borders
Provenance
Kunstauktionshaus Albert Kende, Vienna, 58th Auction, 11-14 April 1921, lot 200.
Literature
H. Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur, Vienna, 1981, I, p. 62.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.