Like all Biedermeier masters, Spitzweg liked to portray figures in the garden or on the terrace, in a small, compressed space, transferring the plastic distribution of light and shadow.
Related Paintings
Amant de cactus – Karl Spitzweg 
Amante de los cactus – Karl Shpitsveg 
Bookworm by Karl Spitzweg 
Poor poet by Karl Spitzweg 
Rat de bibliothèque – Karl Spitzweg 
Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane by Correggio (Antonio Allegri) 
Narcissus looking into the water by Karl Bryullov 
Pauvre poète – Carl Spitzweg