Romantical  painting with melancholical lute-player , sitting by the window of middle-ade palast  and with a moon lake landscape in the back ground. The work created in 1843 by famous tirolian genre and historical painter Peter Paul Kirchebner (1800 - 1852 Innsbruck) . He studied in Munich , Vienna and Venice. His works are now in exposition of the museum"Fernandeum" in Innsbruck .

Literature:  Prof. H.Fuchs  "Lexicon of austrian artists ", Vienna , 1975.Thieme-Becker " Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler" 1999 .

Inscription: signed and dated 1843

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

Measurements: unframed w 7 1/4" x h 9 2/3" (18,5 x 24,5 cm), framed w 13 1/3" x h 15 1/3" (34 x 39 cm)

Condition: in very good condition