"Running deerbuck", This animalistic work was executed in 1855 by listed German animal painter and lthographer August Schleich (1814 - Munich - 1865).

German animal painter, etcher and lithographer, known to friends as "Schleichgustl", son of the copper engraver and inspector of the topographical Bureau Johann Karl Schleich (1759-1842) and brother of Engraver Karl Schleich (1788-1840) and Adrian Schleich (1812-1894).

August Schleich studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich. In Munich he occupied himself almost exclusively with animal painting.

August Schleich invented “smoke painting”. On the layer of soot produced by a candle flame on a plate or sheet of paper, lights were scraped off, resembling mezzotint mezzotints. The finished image was sealed with a layer of varnish. The process was also imitated by the Munich animal painter Eugen von Kramer. August Schleich also created etchings and lithographs.

Schleich also experimented with electroplating, invented by Franz von Kobell in 1842.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler."

Inscription: signed and dated (18)55 lower middle.

Technique: oil on wood, magnificent original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 17 1/3" x h 13 2/3" (44 x 34,5 cm), framed w 22 2/3" x h 60 1/4" (57,5 x 48 cm)

Condition: in good condition.