Military scene with cossacks was executed by popular horse and genre painter Adolf Constantin Baumgartner-Stoiloff. The artist was born in 1850 in Linz (Austria) and died 1924 in Vienna. According to research of Russian literature , he studied in the 1880s at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He was very well known for his Russian horse and hunting paintings. In 1890s-1900s his Russian scenes with cossaks and hunters were frequently reproduced in various European magazines. He is known to have worked under various pseudonyms signing his paintings with "A.Baumgartner-Stoiloff" , "Stoiloff", "Constantin Stoiloff" or "C.Stoiloff".
Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of Austrian artists, Vienna, 1975
Inscription: signed lower left, on the back of the panel is original artist´s label with inscription in German: "Unter sicherer Bedeckung" (in English: under safe cover).
Technique: oil on wood. Original period gold-plated frame.
Measurements: unframed w 18 7/8" x h 12 1/4" (48 x 31 cm), framed w 29 3/4" x 23" (75,5 x 58,5 cm)
Condition: in very good condition. |