Girl At The Window
Girl At The Window c1889 by Italian Painter Eugen von Blaas (1843 – 1931); Also known as Eugene de Blaas) of the Academic Classicism Period. Though he often painted Venetian scenes; he also painted many portraits and religious works of art.
This is a portrait of an attractive Venetian young women leaning on the balcony ledge of a very large window holding closed red rose in her right hand that is resting on the balcony ledge.
She is wearing an aqua blue hair kerchief on the top of her curly red or auburn hair, wearing diamond earrings and a gold string necklace.
Her dress is a two piece sectional, with the upper portion being a chemise of a white cotton material with ruffled sleeves and the high waist portion a floor length tunic or gown that is a light green blue with floral patterns that is front-laced with four crisscrossing cords that go from her chest down to her abdomen area.
Girl At The Window is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available online for sale as a rolled canvas print.
He was born at Albano, near Rome, to a Tyrolean father and Italian mother. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. His mother, Agnesina Auda, was a well-to-do Roman woman. The family moved to Venice when Karl became Professor at the Academy of Venice. He often painted scenes in Venice, but also portraits and religious paintings.
Among his works are La forma nuziale in sacrestia; La tombola in Campielo a Venezia; Una scena di burattini in un educanciatu; and La Ninetta. The art critic Luigi Chirtani, when the painting was displayed at the Mostra Nazionale di Venezia, described it as Beautiful, flattering, pretty, caressed, cleaned, polished, laundress in a painting by Mr. Blaas, the favorite portraitist of great Venetian aristocrats, dressed in gala satins, shining jewelry, hairstyles of the rich.
His colorful and rather theatrical period images of Venetian society, e.g. On the Balcony (1877; Private Collection), were quite different compared to delicate pastels and etchings of the courtyards, balcony and canals of modern Venice.
Eugene de Blaas’ paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, New Gallery and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery in London, and also at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
