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Peasant Girl with Bread Basket and Alpine Flowers, 1877

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
86×55 cm

Artists

  • Anton Romako

    (Vienna 1832–1889 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Anton Romako’s (1832–1889) painting Peasant Girl with Bread Basket and Alpine Flowers, created in 1877, shows the portrait of a young girl looking directly at the beholder. The bright, unsettled looking background serves to highlight the child’s isolation. Cut off from any spatial anchoring, the work exudes a sense of sad loneliness, while the format, which is unusually large for this type of motif, invests the rendering with a penetrating presence. The “child motif” occupied a dominant position especially in the artist’s late oeuvre. Often rendered en face, alone and against diffuse backgrounds, the children symbolize the insecure dimension of the soul and psyche. Attributes such as flowers or animals emphasize their search for comfort and protection.

AS, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Anton Romako
Title
Peasant Girl with Bread Basket and Alpine Flowers
Date
1877
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
86×55 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower left: A. Romako 1877.
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 741
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Anton Romako. Beginn der Moderne, hrsg. von Marianne Hussl-Hörmann/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2018–18.06.2018).
  • Anton Romako. Beginn der Moderne, hrsg. von Marianne Hussl-Hörmann/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2018–18.06.2018).
  • Fritz Novotny: Der Maler Anton Romako 1832–1889, Wien/München 1954.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Reiter 2010: 364
  • Novotny 1954: 225
Keywords
woman/girlbread/loafflowersfarmerstanding figure (fem.)dress/gown

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Ungarischer Gesandter von Auer, Paris (o.D.);
Dr. Oskar Bam, Paris (o.D.);
Kunsthandlung Schebesta, Wien (o.D.);
Johann Piering, Waidhofen a.d. Thaya (vor 1954-1991); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1991-1994); (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung (1994).

  1. Fritz Novotny, Der Maler Anton Romako. 1832 – 1889, Wien u. München 1954, S. 35f., Taf. 18, S. 90, Nr. 225;
  2. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Verkaufsbestätigung vom 05.06.1991; Österreichische Galerie, Katalog zu „Der Außenseiter Anton Romako. 1832-1889. Ein Maler der Ringstraßenzeit“, Wien 1992, S. 164, Nr. 49

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