Johannes G. M. Stolle, Biedermeier couple Depiction of a wealthy couple sitting on a red Biedermeier sofa with lap dog, on the left the husband in a black frock coat, with folding rule and writing calendar in his hands, on the right his wife with white hood and in a yellow silk dress, next to a sewing table with flowers and needlework utensils, the background gives a view of a landscape with sawmill as well as farm, in front of which fabrics are laid out for bleaching, according to the previous owner it is probably the owners of the mills in Cämmerswalde, OT Rauschenbach near Neuhausen in the Ore Mountains, near Purschenstein Castle, fine glazed painting, oil on canvas, signed and indistinctly dated on the right side of the sewing table "Johannes G. M. Stolle XI 1851 [?]", craquelure, old retouching, somewhat in need of restoration, in a splendid late Biedermeier gilt stucco frame (rest.bed.), folding dimensions approx. 120 x 164 cm. Artist info: also Johann G. M. Stolle, German painter (mentioned around 1851), probably identical with "Johann Anton [?] Stolle" who studied at the Dresden Academy from 1828, probably active in the Ore Mountains, source: student lists of the Dresden Academy, Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde der Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin 1958 and info on painting.