Standing girl with red shoes 1904

Full-length portrait of a standing girl with brown, parted hair standing on a park bench with her left hand resting on it. She is wearing a white silk dress with a high waist and puffed sleeves ending at the elbow. She is wearing white socks and bright red shoes. Her left hand is propped flat on the gray stone slab of a park bench or a table on which a vase of pink flowers stands. In the background, there are hints of trees and vegetation, through which a blue sky shines in places.

JQAW# P_1904_080
Oil on canvas 118 x 68 cm
Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 1904
Private collection, Austria

This child portrait, which was sold at auction in England in 2024, depicts an unidentified girl of around 6 years of age, likely from upper middle-class Viennese circles. There is no information on the paintings provenance. Only a sticker from the Viennese company Kunsttrans on the back of the painting indicates that the painting probably came from Vienna to England in the 1980s after purchase or from a private collection, to where the painting has now returned again.

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2024 auction 3. July Bourne End Auctions UK lot#217.
Private collection, Austria.