"A Young Girl in the Courtyard: A Charming Genre Painting by the Düsseldorf Artist"

(1830 Tumlingen – 1900 Düsseldorf) A Peasant Woman Reading in the Courtyard, with a half-open door flooded with light, seated on a stool, a young girl absorbed in reading. A charming genre painting, lovingly executed with attention to detail, by a Düsseldorf artist who studied in Stuttgart and Munich. Oil on canvas; signed and dated 1868 on the front, with the location Düsseldorf and another date on the reverse; 27 cm x 22 cm. Framed.