High quality genre scene in the park was executed by prominent and high quoted Austrian painter and illustrator Franz Xaver Simm (1853 Vienna - 1918 Munich). The son of a family of painters studied from 1869 to 1876 at the Vienna Academy of fine arts under Eduard von Engerth and Anselm Feuerbach. He received a two-year travel grant in 1876 to Rome, and remained until 1881, Italy. There, he married Marie Mayer, also a painter. Together they then went to Tbilisi/Georgia, there to run murals in the Caucasus Museum. Later, he lived in Munich, where he accepted a professorship.Simm worked mainly as an Illustrator. Later, he created increasingly small genre pictures in the Empire style. This small genre works arrive high results by international auctions to 70000 Euro.

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

Inscription: signed and titeld München, lower right.

Technique: oil on wood, original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 11 3/4" x h 16 1/2" (30 x 42 cm), framed w 20 1/4" x h 24 3/4" (51,5 x 63 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.