805 - C. Herrmann, Man with Pipe Mending a Net, Net Mender, Genre Painting in Ornate Frame

C. Herrmann, Man with Pipe Mending a Net, Net Mender, Genre Painting in Ornate Frame Oil on canvas, signed lower right, an old man with white hair, white chin and cheek beard and pipe, in white shirt, reddish-brown waistcoat and yellow patterned under-waistcoat, seated, a net in his hands, wooden clogs on his feet, red brick floor, on the left a wine glass on a bench and a jug on the floor, on the right a wooden tub, the hearth with kettle on a chain and trivet, ochre yellow wall with window and hooks, behind the man a dark cloth, good age-appropriate condition, gold paint over the face, dripped down to the hand, craquelure, image 60x50 cm (HxW), framed in a gold-coloured ornate frame with rocailles and cream-coloured mirror panels, frame chipped, frame width 8 cm Genre painting reached its peak in the Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th and 18th centuries, in which the interior often takes centre stage. From the 1820s the Düsseldorf school of painting developed narrative, detailed scenes of everyday life on the model of 17th-century Dutch painting and found the life of fishermen on the North Sea coast as a subject; the Munich school cultivated the fishing scene on the Chiemsee with painters such as Joseph Wopfner. The net mender in an interior is a fisherman picture of this genre painting in the format of the cabinet picture.