"Epps is a master of genre films"

(1834 Eberbach – 1910 Munich) "Child Eating Cherries." Originally titled "Dressed in a White Shirt," a full-faced child with dark hair sits on a cushion in a room, innocently looking at the viewer with rosy cheeks and enjoying juicy red cherries from a bowl. At his feet, several gnawed pits and broken fruit stems have already accumulated. This lovingly depicted and charming genre painting is the work of Epp, who studied at the Karlsruhe Academy under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres, and in 1863 moved to Munich, where he quickly gained international fame for his delicate and tasteful genre paintings depicting figures in interiors. Oil, canvas on panel. Signed. 61 cm x 46 cm. In a frame. Entered in the online catalog of sketches of the Rudolf Epp Forum Heidelberg under catalog number EW 0414.