Artist: Karl Gussow
Date: 1882
Size: 630 x 764 cm
Museum: Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil On Panel
This portrayal of a young serving-girl, neatly-dressed in rural peasant costume, holding out a plate of opened oysters and a lemon, is typical of Gussow’s minutely detailed realism. Gussow was considered a leading 19th-century German exponent of the growing school known as ‘Naturalism’. Anton von Werner, the Director of the Berlin Academy, where Gussow taught between 1875 and 1880, described Gussow’s ideal as being “the exact reproduction of nature”. This was one of three paintings that Gussow exhibited at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions held in the Walker between 1879 and 1881. During this period he was based in London and presumably bought the panel on which he painted
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