Oil painting on canvas, 37 x 44 cm (44 x 52 cm with frame) and right signed and dated 1877th The painting was cleaned, restored and re-varnished. Refs: Thieme Becker, Boetticher, Bruckmann: The Munich painter in the 19th Century
Excerpt from Thieme-Becker Deibl, Anton, genre painter, born in 1833 in the 23rd Miesbach † First 1883 in Munich, came as the son of a tanner with renowned faculty to Munich and there enjoyed the private instruction of JB Berdelle, which he dignified life the shaping and development of his color sense thanked ver. In his teaching Mr. footsteps treading, chose D. antique fabrics; 1857 he released his first oil painting "Venus which the Cupid has one goal" (repeated in processing 1863) and in 1865 a "flora", "children with fruit" (1866) and a "mother luck" in the title picture. Then went D. over to him more congenial genre with better success, the "Farrier miracle doctor", a rural "toilet" (1868) and the cute scherzo "The sweet friend" (1869), two children, a huge Sugar umhalsend . With such Kinderszenen D. came into his real fairway. Next followed "He must go home!" "Frugal meal" (cats fütternde Girl, 1870), "secrecy", "Involuntary Homecoming" (1871), children's play "A great lady," the "fish fatale", the only picture ds, which reproduced as a woodcut in the "Gazebo" (1878 p. 639) appeared), since the painter all requests from publishers and magazines magazines stubbornly rejected to one day all his creations in a special color printing album even publish what he unfortunately never found time. D. did not understand his work in this respect exploit, any more than he valued his fortune, which partially melted away without any fault just too early. When he wanted to work seriously, it was too late because a lung ailment vorschreitendes demanded peace and rest. U need not worry that he came close, before his life was extinguished, prevented brave friends. Supplement 56 to the "Allgemeine Zeitung" v. 25 Second 1883rd - Frau von Boetticher, painting works of the 19th 1895 213th century I Holland.Deichelmann H., Mathias, cabinetmakers worked in Kitzingen,