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The Little Parisian Albert von Keller

Artist

Albert von Keller Gais [Switzerland], 1844 – Munich, 1920

Culture German
Date ca. 1900
Object type painting
Medium, technique oil on cardboard
Dimensions

28.1 x 21.4 cm

Inventory number 344.B
Collection Department of Art after 1800
On view Hungarian National Gallery Building B, First Floor, Art in the 19th Century – Variations on Realism. From Munkácsy to Mednyányszky

Fin-de-siècle society was the focus of interest to Albert von Keller, a popular Munich portrait artist, when he sojourned in Paris in 1882. In the French capital he struck up friendship with Mihály Munkácsy, who was already a celebrated artist of the salon genre and who seemed to have influenced the stylistic development of Keller’s art. The Little Parisian is a study for more complex genre painting. The unusual angle with the figure seen from behind and its placement in a dark space are emblematic of the early period of Keller’s psychological portraiture, which – like much of Munkácsy’s portrait art – instead of focusing on the physical appearance, concentrates on showing the subject’s character and state of mind.

Luca Keserü

References

Peregriny, János, Az Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum állagai. 3.rész, Új szerzemények. 3. füzet: a, Plastikai művek; b, Az 1913. évi szerzemények; c, Kifüggesztésre, elhelyezésre és kezelésre vonatkozó adatok: d, Sorszámszerinti jegyzék; e, Tárgymutató; f, Javítások; g, Tartalomjegyzék, Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1915.

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