Oil on panel. Signed in the lower right margin. With the label of the painting supplies store "Winsor & Newton" on the reverse, as well as inscribed and numbered by hand, partly illegibly. 35 x 43.2 cm.
- From the 1870s onwards, the Shakespearean figure of the sympathetic drunkard Sir John Falstaff was one of Grützner's most successful motifs. - Grützner's love of detail, the subtle humor of the depiction, and his choice of colors suggest the inspiration he drew from the Dutch masters. - Trained in the studio of the renowned history painter Carl von Piloty, Grützner was one of the most successful painters of his time.
Accompanied by a certficate issued by Horst Ludwig, Munich, dated June 19, 1987.
LITERATURE: László Balogh, Eduard von Grützner 1846-1925, Ein Münchner Genremaler der Gründerzeit, Munich 1991, no. 583 (illustrated).