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The image depicts an older woman. She has a wrinkled face and a serious expression. Her head is covered with a headscarf that is tied around her head. Around her neck, she wears a fur coat or scarf. The background of the image is dark and plain, allowing the figure in the foreground to stand out clearly.

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Rosina Wieser, aged 83
Date1820

Artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 Wien – 1865 Hinterbrühl)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
50 x 40 cm
SignatureBez. auf Rückseite: Waldmüller 1820 [von fremder Hand]
Inventory number1871b
Location Currently not on display
The fur collar, blue headscarf, lace, and especially the face of Rosina Wieser have all been captured with breathtaking delicacy and precision. Waldmüller has missed nothing: neither the small asymmetries to be found in every human face, nor its fine wrinkles nor the slight reddish hue of the eyelids. Rosina Wieser was eighty-three when Waldmüller painted her in July 1820, according to the inscription on the reverse of the picture. Two months before, he had portrayed Rosina’s son Vinzenz. Vinzenz Wieser supported Waldmüller over several years. In Waldmüller’s own words he owed “his entire artistic training” to Wieser.

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