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The image depicts a man in a sitting position. He is wearing a helmet and a historical soldier's attire that is red-orange. The man is holding a musical instrument, which looks like a large round kettle or drum, in front of him. In the background, there is a picturesque landscape with gentle hills, trees, and a small village or town in the distance. The sky is clear, and a calm, peaceful scene is portrayed.

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The Bread Cutter
Date1823

Artist Moritz von Schwind (1804 Wien – 1871 Niederpöcking)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
49 x 64 cm
SignatureMonogr. und dat. unten links: MS. 1823
Inventory number3195
Location Currently not on display
We see here a young nobleman who is in the service of a knight. Gazing into the distance, the squire is cutting a slice from his large loaf of bread. His sword is beside him; his clothes—especially the slashed doublet and his shoes—point to the sixteenth century. They are as “old German” as the landscape with the gently flowing river, the village, and the Gothic church in the distance. Schwind was a key exponent of the nineteenth-century vogue for the romance of knights and castles. Known primarily for his fairy-tale images, he often romanticized the “good old days.” The past thus became an idyllic retreat from the present and its rationalism, which the painter experienced as increasingly cold and inadequate.

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