[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG)./internal/media/dispatcher/3820/fullGirl in Front of the LotteryMädchen vor dem Lotto182963 × 50 cm
Oil on canvas21771
This depiction is one of the first genre pictures in 19th-century Austrian painting. The story woven around the girl is centered on the figure herself rather than a particular event. Whether the young woman is brooding about money already lost on the lottery or considering investing in the sweepstake for Linz announced on the sign, is left open to question.
Peter Fendi did not choose this theme by chance but was referring to the boom in gambling, which made the lottery a hot topic of the time. When this picture was shown at the Vienna academy exhibition in 1830 it was highly acclaimed in the press. Emperor Francis I acquired it for his picture collection that same year.Painting101961337977Upper Belvederehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-7977/manifest