"Epps is a master of genre painting."

(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 gazing at the viewer with rosy cheeks and enjoying juicy red cherries from a bowl. Several gnawed pits and broken fruit stems have already accumulated at his feet. This lovingly depicted and charming genre painting belongs to the brush of Epps, who studied at the Karlsruhe Academy under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig de Coudray, and moved to Munich in 1863, 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. Framed. Listed in the online catalog of sketches by the Rudolf Epp Forum Heidelberg under catalog number EW 0414.