Genre scene with cossack wedding ride 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 and Ukrainian 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 right.

Technique: framed oil on wood.

Measurements: unframed w 18 1/2" x h 12 1/8" (47 x 30,8 cm), framed w 23 2/3" x h 17 1/8 " (60 x 43,5 cm)

Condition: in very good condition.