Der Vertrag
1848
Medium
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
63 x 80 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
9231
Art Historical Context
"Der Vertrag" ( Contract), painted by Austrian artist Eduard Swoboda in 1848, captures a pivotal moment in oil on canvas, measuring 63 x 80 cm. This intimate-scale work belongs to the Belvedere Collection Vienna, where it exemplifies 19th-century Austrian painting. Swoboda (1814–1902), trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine, was known for his detailed genre scenes and portraits that reflected the bourgeois life of the Biedermeier era, realism with subtle narrative depth. Created amid the revolutionary fervor of 1848—the "Springtime of Nations" that shook Vienna and much of Europe—"Der Vertrag"...