Friedrich von Olivier (attrib.), Roman woman with her children / Mother with her children at the Italian coast. 1820s. Friedrich von Olivier1791 Dessau - 1859 ibid. Pencil drawings on cardboard. Each unsigned. Both works mounted together in a hinged passepartout. Paper a little bit yellowed due to its age. Slightly smudge-marked in marginal areas. "Mother with her children on the Italian coast" with tiny, inconspicuous spot on the left next to the mother's shoulder. Margins of sheet partially trimmed somewhat unevenly. With yellowed traces of glue on verso. Dimensions: 13 x 8 cm, Psp. 44 x 31 cm. Friedrich von Olivier 1791 Dessau - 1859 ibid. Friedrich von Olivier received his first artistic education 1801-02 at Karl Wilhelm Kolbe and Christian Haldenwand as well as as pupil of the court sculptor Friedemann Hunold in Dessau. 1811 together with his brothers, the artists Ferdinand and Heinrich Olivier, to Vienna, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. During the wars of liberation Olivier went to the Netherlands and to France as a member of the Lützowsche Freikorps and afterwards for a short time to Great Britain. 1814 return to Vienna, 1817 journey through the Salzburger Land as well as 1818 to Italy, among others stays in Florence and Rome. 1923 Return to Vienna.