Research
Oil on canvas, laid to board.
Marks:
Signed and dated Clemens de la Croce pinxit 1816
Document inscribed BURGHAUSEN
Provenance:
Mallett, Bourdon House, 1984
Private Collection, Stockholm.
This painting of a group within a neoclassical interior almost certainly depicts the apothecary Konrad Göschl and his wife Franziska, possibly with their children. It was painted by the artist Clemens Johann Evangelist della Croce (1782-1824), active in Burghausen, Bavaria.
The painting can also be viewed as a significant art historical document as it shows an interesting neoclassical interior of the 1770s, but furnished with cherry and ebonized wood seating furniture, representing the first flowerings of the Biedermeier style, which would have been on the cutting edge of taste in 1816.
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