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Poor Well-Wishers
Date1861

Artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 Wien – 1865 Hinterbrühl)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on wood
Dimensions
55,5 × 44,5 cm
SignatureBez. links neben der Blumenvase: Waldmüller 1861
Inventory number555
Location Currently not on display
Waldmüller’s love of depicting fine fabrics with deceptive verisimilitude shines out especially in his portraits of women or, as here, in a genre scene. But the dresses of the seated lady and the two girls do not distract from the blatant collision of social opposites in this painting: in the foreground in the light are the wealthy residents of the house, in the dark background the poor well-wishers. The scene could have taken place in Waldmüller’s apartment, as we can see two of his paintings on the wall above the girls, including his self-portrait of 1848, which shows the artist in classic painter pose.

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1903 Ankauf Artaria & Co., Wien

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