Eleonore Schrotzberg, geb. Stohl, die erste Gattin des Künstlers

Art Historical Context

In the intimate portrait *Eleonore Schrotzberg, geb. Stohl, die erste Gattin Künstlers* (Eleonore Schrotz, née Stohl, Artist's First Wife), Austrian painter Franz Schrotz captures his spouse around 1835. Created during the Biedermeier period—a time of conservative domesticity in post-Napoleonic Vienna small oil on canvas laid on cardboard (28 x22 cm) exemplifies the era's focus on personal, realistic likenesses. Schrotzberg, known for his precise portraiture amid Vienna's burgeoning middle-class culture, renders Eleonore with tender familiarity, highlighting the private bonds that defined Bied...