Lot 753
Austrian or German School, mid-19th c., "A Reverie, Accompanied by a Clarinet", oil on canvas, unsigned, 14 in. x 13 1/8 in., in a later frame. Note: This picture perfectly captures a mood of quiet contemplation, as a young scholar puts aside his ponderous, illuminated tome, and pen and ink, to sit on the edge of his desk before an open window to play gentle airs while staring out-of-doors. The nature of the richly furnished interior, and the costume, suggest the painting's composition in Germanic lands in the first half of the 19th century, under the influence perhaps of the school of Düsseldorf, which flourished from the 1820s through the 1860s and beyond. Because of the proximity of that center to the Netherlands, influences from 17th century Dutch masters, and the contemporaneous genre painters of the Low Countries, are also apparent in such paintings as this, with its reminiscence of artists such as Vermeer, Dou, and Metsu.
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