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The image depicts several people in a rural setting. There are children and young individuals gathered in a group. Some are sitting on the ground while others are standing and interacting with each other. In the background, there are trees and a hilly landscape that conveys a natural, spring-like atmosphere. The ground is partially covered in snow, and there are scattered flowers visible.

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Early Spring in the Vienna Woods
Veilchenpflücker im Wienerwald
Date1861

Artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 Wien – 1865 Hinterbrühl)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on wood
Dimensions
52 × 66 cm
SignatureBez. unten rechts: Waldmüller 186[1]
Inventory number1501
Location Orangery
Snow is still on the ground, but violets and primroses are already in flower. Oversized and tantalizingly close, Waldmüller depicts them in the foreground. Some have been picked by the children. One girl bashfully offers her bunch to a boy. But this painting’s main motif is neither flowers nor children, but the landscape, captured by Waldmüller using only a few hues of blue, green, and brown—colors echoed in the children’s clothes. Light, which falls evenly on the figures and the landscape from the left, does not introduce accents but evokes atmosphere, and in this approach Waldmüller was well ahead of his times. His contemporaries responded with incomprehension or even harsh criticism.

Provenance
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1906 Editha Mauthner-Markhof, Wien
1913 Ankauf Magda Mautner-Markhof, Wien

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