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

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