Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 48”x 36”

The bridal party are gathered for festivities in this 19^th century genre oil painting by Carl Duxa. The bride and groom are serenaded by a group while the mandolin plays. The plush furnishings such as the chandelier and the hanging tapestries and ornate architecture in the background suggests this vignette depicts a wedding in a wealthy family. Signed lower right, brass engraved nameplate and in an ornate period frame.

The Austrian painter Carl Duxa was a son of the portrait and genre painter Alois Duxa (1843-1918). From 1888 to 1895, he studied at the Vienna Academy with Johann Mathias von Trenkwald (1824-1897). In the 1890s, he traveled to Holland and Northwestern Germany. Duxa was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus and a member of the artist association ‘Alte Welt’ [Old World]. In 1912, he received the Prize of the Vienna Artists' Association, Dumba.