Very fine watercolour depicts a young girl picking flowers. It was executed in 1854 by well renowned  Austrian genre and portrait painter Carl Goebel (1824-1899). He was a very well-known watercolour and graphic artist. His first teachers were the famous romantical artists J.A. Klein and J.C.Ehrhard. Later he studied also at the Vienna Academy. He was a very popular portrait and genre painter who travelled through Europe and Russia and worked at various European courts. Works by him belong to collections of various museums.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of Austrian artists, Vienna, 1975; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary" (in German), Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: signed lower right .

Technique: watercolour on paper, original period gilt frame.

Measurements: w 6 3/4" x h 8 1/4" (17 x 21 cm), framed w 9 1/4" x h 10 3/4" (23,5 x 27,5 cm).

Condition: in good condition.