Posted 9 years ago
mssue64
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I bought this print from a storage sale the frame is all wood frame on Masonite board I don't think it's a painting,anybody know artist or what the print is called.
Antique Print on Masonite Board Please Help ID | ||
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"This should be an early, signed, dated, stone lithograph which is fraught with symbolism and pathos. The print shows a scene with 10 people, in mourning, gathered for the reading of the will. Eight of these people, and an owl, looking shocked and angry, stare menacingly toward the two at the far right. First wife is seated at the left, second wife, or mistress, younger and prettier, seems to be the beneficiary of the old mans will. The room is disheveled, the argument may not be over. Josef Franz Danhauser, Austrian artist, was best known for his Biedermeier designed furniture, but he was also a popular realist artist. The lithograph is initialed "JD", and dated 1839 in the print next to the ink pot on the floor.
WOWWWWW! such great information,thank you so very much mp.Kunst,I will look up the artist,I would have never look at the JD,wow