Emil Barbarini (1855-1930) Austrian Painter

Emil Barbarini (1855-1930) Austrian painter "Fish market painting 'Oil painting on mahogany panel, Painting Dimensions 37 x 58cm., Signed with the pseudonym Rovier Emil Barbarini was the son of the famous landscape painter and engraver Franz Barbarini (1804-1873) Unlike his father's Alpine themes, he quickly began to focus on market scenes, his favorite subject being the flower market in front of the Karlskirche in Vienna, but he also did many impressions of his study trips to the Netherlands and Belgium. Barbarini was mainly interested in the special treatment of light at different times of the day. Like French artists Degas and Monet, he often painted the same object at times different to capture the light without risk of thematic distraction.