Humorfully genre scene was executed in second hlf of 19th century by listed Austrian genre painter Carl ( Cölestin)  Schleicher (1825 - 1903).

Schleicher was born in Lemberg (now Lviv), but he acquired his education in the field of painting mainly in Vienna between the years 1860 and 1870. He was a student of the Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Wldmueller. 

Schleicher is especially known for portrait paintings of faces, as well as interpretive paintings of rabbis who study the Telmud. A considerable amount of his paintings are oil paintings.

His paintings are an authentic record of Jewish culture and customs, as well as the rabbinic form of learning. These paintings have been exhibited several times at the Austrian Art Club (Österreichisches Kunstverein).

Schleicher's paintings are both interpretive and precise. He is depicting the pointed scholastic atmosphere of the Jewish rabbis studying the Talmud. One can see the heat of the debate on the faces and movements of the characters.

Schleicher died in Padua, , Kingdom of Italy in 1903. (Wikipedia in on-line).

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas, original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 8 1/4" x h 10 1/4" (21 x 26 cm), framed 14 1/4" x 15 7/8"(36,2 x 40,5 cm).

Condition: good.