EUGEN VON BLAAS | Girl at the Window

By descent within the family of the present owner

A young woman is here portrayed while leaning against the balustrade of a Venetian home. The delicacy of the rose held in her hand is reflected in her innocent features. Von Blaas strove to capture the inherent beauty of Italian women by capturing them in their conversations in the streets, selling flowers or courting with lovers.

The artist’s technical abilities are evident in his rendering of the sumptuous fabrics and lace in the woman’s corset and in the delicate still life. As the artist's biographer Thomas Wassibauer points out, to some degree his compositions are fantasies, figures frozen in time which explore and experience what he calls ‘harmless joie de vivre’.