Painting ID:: 64566
Rebecca and Eliezer 1745-50 Oil on canvas, 72 x 91,5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The painting and its companion-piece, Joseph and his Brothers, are early works showing the influence of Troger and the Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Pittoni. Artist:MAULBERTSCH, Franz Anton Title: Rebecca and Eliezer, 1751-1800, Austrian , painting , religious
MAULBERTSCH, Franz Anton Austrian Painter, 1724-1796
Austrian painter. His work as a painter of both oil paintings and frescoes on religious, mythological and occasionally worldly themes spanned the second half of the 18th century, adapting a Late Baroque training to the onset of Neo-classicism but remaining strikingly individual throughout. His fresco work, mostly still in situ in widespread central European locations, came at the end of an artistic tradition and was for long neglected, being far from major cultural centres; but it is now seen to establish him as one of the leading painters of his century Rebecca and Eliezer 1745-50 Oil on canvas, 72 x 91,5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The painting and its companion-piece, Joseph and his Brothers, are early works showing the influence of Troger and the Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Pittoni. Artist:MAULBERTSCH, Franz Anton Title: Rebecca and Eliezer, 1751-1800, Austrian , painting , religious
