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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The artist, T. Schtler, is unknown. However, the painting is a technically accomplished work. Its subject and style suggest it was produced in Venice, where at the time of its production in 1879 a school of Realist genre painting flourished. Among its key exponents was the academician Eugene de Blaas whose compositions, like the present painting, frequently showed women on the steps of a doorway. Whereas de Blaas concentrated on painting beauties' in colourful clothes, in this picture Schtler depicts a young girl, her left arm raised to her face in self-protection as a group of startled pigeons fly up at her. The girl, who wears an emerald green hair band, ragged dress, scarf and blouse enlivened with red cuffs, stands barefoot on a step at the entrance to a grand doorway. The ragged clothes of the poor girl contrast with her youthful features and the luxury of the yellow marble column, which she presses her back up against. This contrast suggests themes of Venice's past grandeur and present decline. As his model Schtler appears to have chosen a young Venetian girl that would eventually be classed as a beauty' of the type that populate de Blaas's picturesque paintings. | Subjects: | figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Schtler, T. (unknown school, active late 19th century) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8463... | Go to resource |
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