884 - Alfred Staerke, "Feierabend", horse team with two draught horses at a puddle, dated 1947

Alfred Staerke, "Feierabend", horse team with two draught horses at a puddle, dated 1947 Oil/painting board, signed and dated lower right "A. Staerke 47", inscribed "Alfred Staerke" and titled "Feierabend" on the label on the reverse, below it the dealer's label "bilder-etage schuhstraße", autumnal field landscape, on the left a wooden box wagon with a figure leaning over its side, in front of it two brown draught horses in harness at a puddle, beside them a man in a peaked cap and boots holding one horse by the head, in the foreground a dog, on the right a large bare tree, in the background a wide plain under yellowish lit clouds, good condition commensurate with age, minimal paint losses, image 60.5x80 cm (HxW), framed, frame width 9 cm The painting belongs to genre painting, the painted depiction of an everyday scene that leaves its figures anonymous and characterises them through work and surroundings. Peasant scenes and rural life have been established subjects of this genre since the 16th century.