On that winter afternoon more than 100 years ago, Janis Rosenthals painted in his studio, the beautiful model shivered with cold, and Rosenthals lit the stove, this scene was frozen in the artist's work, which is also Rosenthals's most representative work.
Jani Rosenthals was a 19th-century Latvian painter in a small country in northeastern Europe with beautiful landscapes that can be seen in Rosenthals' landscape paintings.
It is difficult to define Rosenthals's style of painting with a certain "ism", there are classicism, impressionism, and symbolism, and he also likes photography, and is an artist who is good at accepting new things.
The subjects of Rosenthals's creation are also diverse, mainly figure paintings, and he has also painted many landscapes, especially like to paint the fields full of spring, the spring in Northern Europe is very short, fleeting, and therefore more precious.
Figure paintings include portraits, but also characters from mythological stories. There are realistic, but also symbolic and fantastical.
Rosenthals was born into poverty, his father was a blacksmith, and his works also depict scenes of striking iron, which are his childhood memories.
Rosenthals began his painting career as an apprentice in the painter's studio, when he was 14 years old. Five years later, having some foundation in painting, Rosenthal was admitted to an art academy in Riga, where he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts after graduating with an award at an art exhibition.
After graduating from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Rosenthals traveled extensively in Europe, stayed in Paris for a long time, and returned to Latvia to work as a teacher at the local Academy of Fine Arts until the outbreak of World War I. Rosenthals was 48 years old and left his homeland to go to Germany, but died two years later.
This "Princess and Monkey" is a late work of the painter, the princess is bejeweled, and the monkey is also wearing a tuxedo, is this a circus performance?