Defregger, Franz von (1835 Dölsach/Tyrol - 1921 Munich)

Lot 3000 limit € 16.000

Oil/wood, "The Zither Player", a genre scene which the artist is known to have painted several times due to the great popularity of the motif (cf. Hans Peter Defregger "Defregger" 1835 - 1935, p. 288, 296, 298 and 363), left Signed below, verso inscribed "Franz v. Defregger", signs of age, framed, approx. 85 x 65 cm, with frame approx. 96 x 76 cm, around 1900, the Tyrolean painter Franz von Defregger, who after moving to Munich in the In the early 1870s, he rose to become one of the most important representatives of the Munich school of painting and was active both in the field of progressive history painting and in the genre scene