Franz Schubert & Franz Grillparzer bei der Arbeit

Franz Schubert & Franz Grillparzer bei der Arbeit
Franz Schubert & Franz Grillparzer at Work
Beingermeier double portrait of two young men at a table in the interior, seated on the left with a book under his propped-up arm, next to snuff box and upturned coffee cup, is the Austrian writer and dramatist Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (1791 Vienna to 1872 Vienna), whose portrait goes back to a portrait of Grillparzer by Moritz Daffinger made in 1827, on the right in profile with writing utensils and sheet of music the Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert (1797 Himmelpfortgrund/Vienna to 1828 Wieden) is depicted, next to Schubert's sheet of music four coloured tokens are shown, According to tradition, the composer's income was precarious and it is said that the artist paid for a bill with a song written on the spot in a tavern, In this scene, Grillparzer and Schubert seem to have had a lively intellectual exchange: Schubert set lines by Franz Grillparzer to music in his "Ständchen" Opus 135, and Franz Grillparzer dedicated touching lines to Schubert, who died at an early age, for his funeral monument: "Tonkunst buried a rich possession here, But even more beautiful hopes. Franz Schubert lies here. ...", glazed or slightly impasto Biedermeier portrait painting, oil on canvas, 1st half 19th century, unsigned, craquelure, partial paint layer losses, backed defects in the canvas, in need of restoration, beautifully framed in original, simple veneer strip, folding dimensions approx. 85 x 104.5 cm.