Great genre scene from the Belle Epoque time depicting a couple of a young girl and a officer , flirted during the walk in a garden , the painting was executed in 1897 by listed German painter and illustrator Ludwig Stutz (1865 Hoheneck/Wuerttemberg - 1917 Illenau/Baden). The artist studied at the Art Academy in Munich under L.Löfftz and at the Academy Julian in Paris. He worked in Berlin more than 20 years as painter and illustrator , exhibited his works in the artist union "Berliner Sezession" (from 1900 to 1910) , on the Great International Exhibition in Berlin in 1904 and in the same year - on the international exhibition in Duesseldorf . His genre works are very rare in the international art market.

 Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart"; exhibition cataloque "Berliner Sezession", 1900, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909,1910; exhibition cataloque "Berliner Grosse Kunstausstellung", 1904.

Inscription: signed and dated (18)97 lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period gold-plated frame .

Measurements: unframed w 31 1/2 " x h 51 1/4 " (80 x 130 cm); framed w 41 " x h 60 1/2" (104 x 154 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.