GUSTAV IGLER (AUSTRIA, 1842-1908) THE WELCOME DRINK

GUSTAV KAROLY IGLER (AUSTRIA, 1842-1908) 'THE WELCOME DRINK,' MID- LATE 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN OIL on BOARD, FIGURATIVE GENRE PAINTING of FRANCISCAN FRIAR OFFERING YOUNG SCHOOL BOY a DRINK in FURNISHED QUARTERS, in ORNATE GOLD GILT DECORATIVE FRAME, with AFFIXED NEW YORK CITY PICTURE FRAMER'S LABEL on VERSO
[*The Austrian genre painter Gustav Igler created multiple images with the same graphic iconography and with the same title clearly for commercial purposes and to generate income. A similar work by Gustav Igler was sold at Bonham's in the United Kingdom fairly recently. It is not this painting but another version of the same image painted by the artist and not by a protege.]
(Circa 1865-1885)
Mid-late 19th century Austrian & European antique figurative genre painting featuring domestic, interior scenes of daily life

DIMENSIONS: 

16" Height x 14" Width x 2 ¼" Depth

Weight: 4 lbs.

INSCRIPTION(S): 

With original picture framer's paper label affixed on verso (Partialy torn)

'R. FUNAI 

Pictures & Frames

218-220 Bowery, New York, NY'

DESCRIPTION:

Estate fresh, uncleaned and 100%, absolutely untouched, with no repairs (old or new) and no 'in-painting' (old or new.) It and another oil painting by the Austrian painter Gustav Igler (1842-1908) are being offered just as they were always displayed in the finely appointed Boston estate they were originally found in, hanging on the walls of a study in a sprawling, stately Victorian mansion. This first of second works on board by the well-listed Austrian artist Gustav Igler features a Franciscan Friar in traditional brown wool robe and round cap, with a blue apron, offering and then watching a young blonde-haired schoolboy with a leather backpack, gulping water from a large ceramic cup, clearly very thirsty from his presumably long walk to school. The boy's barefoot and has his pants rolled up to just below his knees, indicating that it's perhaps summer and mid-day heat has set in. The bemused Friar looks on, delighted he could satisfy the young pupil's thirst. With tremendous detail. Absolutely gorgeous. Outstanding. Very fine.

MULTIPLE PAINTED VERSIONS of SAME IMAGE:

The 19th century Austrian genre painter Gustav Igler, as well as many other European artists at that time, often created multiple images with the same graphic iconography and with the same title, clearly for commercial purposes and to generate additional income. A similar work by Gustav Igler was sold at Bonham's in the United Kingdom fairly recently. It is not this painting for sale in the listing but another similar, nearly identical version of the same image painted by the artist and not by a protege of Gustav Igler. This work is in fact a real, authentic, original, period oil painting on artist board and not a color print or facsimile of the original painting laid down on board. It has been extensively studied and examined with a fine artist's magnifying loop to ensure its authenticity and 'hand-to-surface' quality, of which only an original oil painting would possess and demonstrate, as does this work, an original oil on board by the Austrian painter Gustav Igler.

CONDITION:

Very Good to Excellent overall antique condition. Estate fresh, uncleaned and 100%, absolutely untouched, with no repairs (old or new) and no 'in-painting' (old or new.) It and another oil painting by Gustav Igler are being offered just as they were always displayed in the finely appointed Boston estate they were originally found in, hanging on the walls of a study in a sprawling, stately Victorian mansion. Outstanding.

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