MORITZ STIFTER (Austria, 1857 - 1905). "Young lady with flowers". ca.1890. Oil on panel. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Golden frame with damage. Measurements: 27 x 21 cm; 46 x 41 cm (frame). Bust portrait of a lady wearing a velvet hat and wearing a pleated blouse and bib trimmed in gold thread. She holds a bundle of daisies in her hand, with which the painter alludes to the theme of romantic love. Austrian genre painter born in Vienna. Nephew of the writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) and son of an engineer, he initially chose a career as an officer, later studying painting at the Classical Class of Antiquities at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Carl Theodor von Piloty from 1882. From 1899 he lived and worked in his studio in Haag near Neulengbach, Lower Austria. Moritz Stifter painted almost exclusively beautiful women in seductive poses, often in an oriental setting. He died in the town of Mauer-Öhling in 1905. Moritz Stifter tackled all kinds of subjects, otherwise very typical of the 19th century, including female figures, costume subjects, orientalist, mythologically inspired motifs and scenes and figures from the 16th and 17th centuries. His was a precious language, of romantic heritage, especially descriptive in his gallant and historicist scenes, and more precise, with a smoother brushstroke, in the portraits of Renaissance evocation. He is currently represented in various private collections.