Objekt 13
Portrait of the family of scribe Franz Matzinger-Egger
Description
The family lived in Petersgasse at the time the painting was created, around 1820. The father of the family is dressed in a brown robe and patterned gilet, his wife and the younger of the daughters are wearing a dress made of a colored and printed cotton fabric, while the older sister is wearing a white, perhaps silk dress. The two daughters are splendidly decked out in their typical Biedermeier bonnets, while the mother wears a simple lace hood.
Object description
Painter: attributed to Joseph Reinhart (1749-1829)
Basel(?), around 1820
Oil on softwood
Gift of Dr. phil. et med. Christoph Bernoulli, Basel
Inv. 1997.474.