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Emil Rau, "Rest in front of an Alpine hut", Munich, circa 1900Oil on canvas. Large-format, atmospheric genre scene set in front of a mountain hut. Hidden from the midday sun in the shade, a peasant couple rests on the porch of their mountain hut, looking down over the valley. The young peasant girl is sewing, yet casts a suggestive glance at her husband, who, smoking his pipe, has laid out his beer and lunch before him. Signed "E. Rau / Mchn" at the bottom left. Minor spalling on the husband's left shoulder. No frame. Dimensions 109 x 129 cm.Emil Rau (1858 - 1937) was a German genre painter and illustrator, who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and Munich. His works are invariably devoted to Bavarian-Alpine farm life and were exhibited in Munich's Glaspalast, for example.Condition: I -
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Emil Rau, "Rest in front of an Alpine hut", Munich, circa 1900
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