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Schweninger, Carl Jr. (1854-1903), "Lady with a cigarette"
Schweninger, Carl Jr. (1854-1903)
"Lady with a cigarette". Oil on wooden panel. Size 32,2 x 25,6 cm; 45 x 36,5 (framed). Signed upper left: "C.Schweninger jr. Wien”. On the reverse: wax seal “Hisclher & Comp.” of the Viennese art gallery. Provenance: Private Collection, Tallinn
Carl Schweninger Jr. is a well-known Austrian genre painter. He is a son of the eminent
German painter Carl Schweninger. The elder Schweninger was born in Vienna in 1818 and
was one of the most esteemed painters in his line at the time. His sister Rosa Schweninger
focused on portraits and genre depictions. Schweninger junior was a pupil of his father, but
also studied the figure at the Vienna and Munich Academies. His works charmingly reflect
the fin de siécle lifestyle, part of which was also the manifestation of feminism, as depicted
in this painting.
The artwork is located in Tallinn, Estonia