Girl standing by park bench 1904

Full-body portrait of a girl about 5 years old standing by a park bench. She wears a short white dress with blue ribbbons as shoulder holders, the left one having slipped down. In her long black hair she wears a blue mesh. She holds her left hand onto the side of a stone park bench, formed by a grotesque resembling a panther. In the background a landscape.

JQAW# P_1904_040
Oil on canvas 130 x 76 cm
Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 904. (914?)
Private collection North America

This charming portrait of a girl was sent to the publisher by an anonymous owner using the pseudonym Lys in 2022, who purchased the picture online in 2020 via the Mercato Libre marketplace in Mexico. There is no information available about the provenance or the identity of the girl depicted. It is likely that the painting found its way from Vienna to North America in the course of the emigration of a well-to-do Jewish family. In the absence of further information, it is unfortunately not possible to identify the person depicted or to investigate her life and fate.

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Private collection, North America.