Mathias Leiendecker (1822 - 1871) "mother And Son" Oil On Canvas 1852

Mathias Leiendecker (1822 - 1871) "Mother and her Son in front of a Landscape" Oil on canvas signed and dated lower left 1852 A young woman stands near a terrace railing, her young son holding her other hand. Dimensions 115 x 89 cm Mathias Leyendecker, born in 1822 in Dernau (then in the Kingdom of Prussia) and died in 1871 in Pützchen near Bonn, is a German genre painter and portraitist. He is a student of Michel Martin Drolling and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. A genre painter and portraitist, he exhibited in Paris from 1848. In 1869, he received the commission from Napoleon III for a copy of the Official Portrait of the Emperor by Hippolyte Flandrin. After his death, his widow donated the painting Quails and Larks to the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. Prussian painter German painter of the 19th century Born in 1822 Born in the Rhineland province Died in May 1871 Died in Bonn Died in the Rhineland province Died at age 49