Objects

The painting from 1880 (oil, board, 17.7 x 9.9 cm) presents a bust of a young boy, en face, wearing a cap with a small peak tilted to the right, wearing a white shirt buttoned at the neck and a jacket. The face is long, with a prominent nose and wide mouth, large, dark eyes and slightly protruding ears. Dark, curly hair is visible on the left side. The portrait is painted on a golden background. The pale face contrasts with the dark, top grey, bottom black cap and similarly coloured jacket. There is a signature in the lower right corner: "L. Horowitz/ Lip.1880".

Leopold Horowitz (1838–1917) – Hungarian painter of Jewish origin. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In the period from 1861 to 1862 and from 1868 to 1889, he lived in Warsaw, where he was a portraitist of the local aristocracy. Then, he went to Budapest and finally, in 1893, he settled down in Vienna, where he created a number of portraits of the imperial family and members of the Habsburg family. He painted mainly portraits, as well as genre scenes with Jewish themes.