/internal/media/dispatcher/127193/fullPortrait of Mathilde Trauca 1893[Gustav Klimt]Gustav KlimtOil on canvas Mathilde Trau was the wife of Franz Trau, who operated a popular tea shop on the Wollzeile in downtown Vienna. Gustav Klimt painted her portrait as well as one of her husband. In terms of format and compositional detail, this picture of an affluent, middle-aged woman bears comparison to contemporary portrait photography. The delicate, almost miniature-painting-like technique exhibits a level of realism very close to that of photography. However, Klimt painted in this intricate style only for a short period. Midway through the 1890s he adapted a radically different style of painting, one that had strong associations with Impressionism and featured a more atmospheric manner. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/87645/rdf