Oil/canvas, 58 x 74 cm, lo. ri. sign. F. Schlesinger, on the stretcher old danish label, min. rest. - Provenance: Old Danish collection. - German painter. S. began his training in 1848 at the F. Heimerdinger school of painting in Hamburg, then studied in Düsseldorf and Paris. In 1861 he settled first in Frankfurt, then finally in Munich in 1863. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Amsterdam, Lübeck, Bremen a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Der Neue Rump, Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule.