Funny genre scene with a schoolboy trying to cutch flies, it was executed in 1860-1870 by good-listed genre artist Leopold Löffler-Radymno (1827 Rzeszow - 1898 Cracow). It is one of two author's versions of the same painting. another one of smaller dimensions was sold in Viennese Dorotheum on 7.02.13 for 9375 € (for the image see our additional photo

For other painting by the same artist on our web see item No. 3913.

Leopold Löffler (also Leopold of Löffler Radymno, Leopold Loeffler Edler) was Polish painter. He was known especially through patriotic historical paintings from Polish history and genre paintings.

Löffler was born in 1827 as the son of a civil servant in Rzeszów. The summer from 1832 he spent by his uncle Philipp Löffler, the Mayor of Radymno. Löffler studied in 1845 at the Vienna Fine Art Academy under Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, later in Munich and in 1854-1858 in Paris. He then lived in Vienna and since 1877 returned to Poland and was Professor of the school of Arts in Cracow.

Literature : Prof. H.Fuchs "Lexikon of Austrian Artists (in German)", Vienna, 1975; Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden. Künstler..", Leipzig, 1999; Constantin von Wurzbach: Löffler, Leopold. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich; Jodłowska: Löffler Leopold. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950;

Inscription: signed illegible "Leopold L...", lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period gilt frame.

Measurements: each unframed w 13 1/4" x h 16 1/2" (33,5 x 42 cm), framed w 18 7/8" x h22 1/4" ( 48 x 56,5 cm).

Condition: in good condition.