"Hip Portrait of a Lady with a Pearl Necklace: High Artistic Quality of Viennese Portrait Painting from the Biedermeier Era"

(ca. 1840) Hip portrait of a lady with a pearl necklace. This representative, meticulously executed work of art possesses high artistic quality. It depicts a noble lady in profile, dressed in a black gown and a delicate black lace shawl, which effectively covers her forearms and part of her shoulder in a transparent manner. The painting demonstrates the high art of Viennese portrait painting in the Biedermeier era, where prominent and influential artists such as Friedrich von Amerling, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, and Josef Danhauser excelled. Oil on canvas; 100 cm x 82 cm. Framed. An Austrian portraitist, active around 1840.