Schröter is an outstanding Biedermeier artist.

(1795, Schkeuditz – 1835, Berlin) Wine tasting in the cellar of wine merchant Habel in Berlin. Executed in a meticulously detailed painting style with a romantic depiction, where the dramatic scene is illuminated by candlelight. In the painting, a young wine merchant offers a filled glass of wine to an honored client, while the cellar master, holding a wine sample drawn for testing, observes both of them. This rare and artistically outstanding work belongs to the late genre and portrait painter of the Biedermeier era, Schröter. Schröter studied at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts from 1811 to 1817, and then from 1817 to 1819 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1826, he moved from Leipzig to Berlin and focused more on genre painting. In the same year, Schröter exhibited some of his works for the first time at the Berlin Academic Exhibition. By 1830, Schröter had become one of the first and most renowned genre painters, even before genre art gained recognition at the Düsseldorf Academy. Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1827. Original frame. Provenance: From the collection of an old North German family of hotel entrepreneurs.