Portrait of a race brown horse in the stabble was executed by Austrian landscape and animals painter Franz Reichmann ( born 1868 in Vienna). Pupil of Rudolf Carl Huber at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, he created a lot of sporting horse paintings.
Literature: Benezit; Thieme & Becker; Schurr; Hardouin-Fuger.
Inscription: signed, titled Vienna and dated 1893, lower right, name of horse ”Espoir” , upper right.
Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.
Measurements: unframed w 31 1/2” x h 25” (80 x 63,5 cm); framed w 38 1/4” x h 32 1/8” (97 x 81,5 cm).
Condition: in very good condition.
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