Masterfully genre scene at the well in a old town was executed by renowned Austrian genre painter Johann Hamza (1850 in Teltsch, Moravia - 1927 in Vienna).

Hamza was a student of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Eduard von Engerth and settled in Vienna. Together with others he led Viennese genre painting to a second boom in the 1880s. He mostly painted small-format pictures with novelistic content. From 1888 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs "Österreichische Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts", Vienna, 1975; Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines künstlerlexikon", Leipzig,1999.

Inscription: signed and titled Wien (Vienna) lower right.

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

Measurements: unframed w 15 1/3" x h 12 1/8 " (39 x 30,7 cm), framed w 22 3/4 " x h 19 2/3 " (58 x 50 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.