Zwei kleine Mädchen
1830
Medium
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
32,5 × 31,5 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
6682
Art Historical Context
**Zwei kleine Mädchen** (Two Little Girls), painted by Marie Krafft in1830, is a oil-on-canvas portrait measuring 32.5 × 31.5 cm, now housed in Vienna's prestigious Belvedere Collection. This work captures the tender innocence of childhood, a popular theme in early 19th-century European portraiture. The modest scale suggests it was likely a private commission, perhaps for a family keepsake, inviting viewers into a moment of quiet domesticity. Created during Vienna's Biedermeier era—a period of understated realism and bourgeois sensibility following the Napoleonic Wars—Krafft's painting reflec...