Fine genre interior scene with mother and her little dauther was executed in the late 19th century by listed Austrian female painter Hedwig Friedländer Edle von Malheim ( 1863 - Vienna - 1945 ). She was, like her sister Camilla, a pupil of her father Friedrich Friedländer. Later she studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna under Ferdinand Laufberger and Julius Victor Berger, and in 1889/90 with Frithjof Smith-Hald in Munich. From 1885 she was involved in exhibitions of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Originally she was engaged in the genre and still life painting, since the stay in Munich she turned almost exclusively to the portrait, preferably in pastel technique. From now on, she painted popular children´s and women´s portraits at the Vienna Society, which are characterized by close observation. Friedländer exhibited her work in the rotunda of The Woman´s Building at the 1893 World´s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

Literature: in German: Prof. .H.Fuchs Lexicon of Austrian painters, Vienna, 1975; Thieme/Becker " General Artist Lexicon", Leipzig, 1999; Zwei Jh. Kunst der Frau in Österreich (K Secession); in English: Nichols, K. L. "Women´s Art at the World´s Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 29 September 2018; "Hedwig Friedlaender", AskArt. Retrieved 29 September 2018.

Inscription: signed upper left.

Technique: oil on wood, luxuriousy original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed h 21 5/8" x w 27 1/2" (55 x 70 cm ), w. 33 5/8" x h 39 3/4" (85,5 x 101 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.