High quality genre scene with monks playing music in a cathedral was executed in ca.1920s by good listed Austrian genre painter Ludwig Valenta (1893 Vienna- 1943 Rio de Janeiro/Brasilia). He studied at the Viennese Fine Arts Academy. Exhibition in Vienna in 1933. Emigrated to Rio de janeiro in 1939.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs " Die Österreichischen Maler", Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: signed and dated 1924 lower right.

Technique: oil on wood panel, Luxuriousy old Dutch style frame.

Measurements: each unframed w 9 1/4" x 12 3/4" (23,5 x 32 cm); framed w 17 " x 20 1/4" (43 x 51,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition