Music making in the house, a quartet in a baroque ambiance
19世紀後半のウィーンを中心に活躍した風俗画家。モラヴィア（現在のチェコ）に生まれ、ウィーン美術アカデミーでエドゥアルト・フォン・エンゲルトに師事し、1880年…
A Baroque interior adorned with elaborate wood carvings and gold leaf decorations.
Four musicians, dressed in resplendent 18th-century Rococo attire, perform an intimate string quartet.
An elegant everyday scene of sophisticated 'Hausmusik' (domestic music) unfolding in a magnificent Viennese mansion.
However, in reality, the Habsburg Empire in the late 19th century, when this painting was created, was in the midst of rapid industrialization and drastic social structural changes.
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