/internal/media/dispatcher/6780/fullPoor Well-Wishers1861[Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerOil on woodWaldmüller’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.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/6305/rdf