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The portrayal of young women as beautiful, lively and lovely, such painters were very popular in the 19th century, just like women love ** now, women at that time liked to commission painters to paint portraits, of course, these are celebrities and noblewomen, because painting portraits is very expensive.
Schlesinger's portraits are not for the model to sit upright, but for the people in the daily life scenes, highlighting the personality characteristics and interests of the people in the paintings, such portraits are vivid and interesting, from his works can concretely understand the life of young women in European countries more than 100 years ago, their clothing, their interests.
Schlesinger was a German-French painter born in Frankfurt in 1814, who received his university education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and became a professional painter after graduation, active in Vienna and Paris.
As a master of academic classicist painting, Schlesinger's painting style is delicate and realistic, and the composition is rigorous, which is especially suitable for painting portraits, and Schlesinger is good at accepting fashion elements, such as the popular Orientalism and rural customs at that time. Like many painters of his time, he traveled to Turkey to learn about Oriental culture and painted an official portrait of Sultan Mahmud II.
In addition to portraits, there are many genre paintings in Schlesinger's works, you can see the scenes of European life at that time, the interior furnishings, the beautifully made furniture, the porcelain placed on the tables, the beautiful costumes of the women at that time, their lives were also very colorful, they liked to raise birds, read books, eat ice cream, blow soap bubbles, and play chess. If you look closely, the cloth in the painting is very textured, and the artist's exquisite painting skills are amazing.
Life is too short, these beautiful women have disappeared in the smoke and clouds of history, but they are still so beautiful and charming in the painting, this is the charm of painting art.