793 - Carl Reichert, Hunting Dog with Woodcock in its Mouth, pointer in grassy landscape, cabinet picture

Carl Reichert, Hunting Dog with Woodcock in its Mouth, pointer in grassy landscape, cabinet picture (1836 Vienna to 1918 Graz), oil on wood panel, signed lower right, head of a brown and white hunting dog with drooping ears facing right, in its mouth a woodcock with long bill and spread wing, against a blue sky with white clouds in a grassy landscape, good condition commensurate with age, craquelure, small scratches with paint losses in the area of the woodcock, image 16x13.5 cm (HxW), framed, frame width 4 cm Carl Reichert (1836 to 1918) was the son of the Viennese history painter and lithographer Heinrich Reichert and received his first training from his father. He studied at the Ständische Zeichnungsakademie in Graz and learned lithography in Vienna and Munich. After a journey to Italy in 1866 he specialised in animal painting in Vienna from 1869 and was called the "Hunde-Meissonier" for his dog portraits; he signed some 600 animal depictions with the pseudonym "J. Hartung". He was a member of the Wiener Kunstverein and the Aquarellistenklub and returned to Graz in 1910, where he died in 1918. Dogs, horses, landscapes as well as castles and palaces made up his range of subjects.