Large masterfully watercolour was executed in 1881 and depicts an interior of a Viennese (?) weapons collector. It was executed by well renown Austrian genre and portrait painter Carl Goebel (1824-1899). He was a very well-known watercolour and graphic artist. His first teachers were the famous romantical artists J.A. Klein and J.C.Ehrhard. Later he studied also at the Vienna Academy. He was a very popular portrait and genre painter who travelled through Europe and Russia and worked at various European courts. Works by him belong to collections of various museums.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of Austrian artists, Vienna, 1975; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary" (in German), Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: signed and dated 1881 lower left.

Technique: watercolour on paper, gallery gold-plated frame.

Measurements: w 26 3/4 " x h 19 1/4 " (68 x 49 cm), framed w 31 1/2 " x 26 3/4 " (80 x 68 cm).

Condition: in good condition.