/internal/media/dispatcher/91799/fullSelf-Portrait as a Young Man"Porträt des Malers Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller von ihm selbst gemahlt"1828[Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerOil on canvas Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller presents himself in this self-portrait not in the classical artist’s pose in front of an easel with a brush and palette but as a fashionably dressed young man in a landscape setting. Right after completion, he showed the painting in 1828 at an exhibition at the Vienna academy, where he attracted considerable public attention. Although painted in a studio, the portrait convincingly simulates the open-air setting. Waldmüller succeeds in bathing the figure and landscape in the same light. Underneath his signature, which indicates that he was thirty-five years old at the time, is a peony, referring cleverly to his great skill as a flower painter. His versatility made him one of the most sought-after artists in Vienna.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/7921/rdf