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The man in the picture is seated in a slightly turned position. He is wearing a suit with a vest and an overcoat. His face has a friendly expression, and he has curly hair. In his right hand, he holds a hat, while his left hand rests on his leg. In the background, there is a landscape with trees and hills, as well as a cloudy sky. A flower is placed in the foreground.

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Self-Portrait as a Young Man
"Porträt des Malers Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller von ihm selbst gemahlt"
Date1828

Artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 Wien – 1865 Hinterbrühl)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
95 × 75 cm
SignatureBez. unten links: Waldmüller 1828 Aet. 35
Inventory number2121
Location Orangery
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.

Provenance
Exhibitions

Bis 1878 Anna Waldmüller (Witwe des Künstlers).
1885 Ankauf für Kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie
1921 Übernahme aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum, Wien

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