Another painting that my mother is sadly forced to sell is a small painting that is signed "Spitzweg", but several "specialist" told me, that it's only a copy or a painting in the style of Carl Spitzweg. Eventhough it seems to be old enough to be painted in the time that Spitzweg was still alive and none of the people asked were real specialists (one was an auctioneer, one was an art historian but neither of them were Spitzweg-experts...).
The size of the painting is 17cm x 25,5cm which is about 7'' x 10'' without frame. It comes with a massive golden frame, that I did not take a photo of yet. (But I hope to get some better photos of the painting in a few days including some with the frame...).
It shows an old postman delivering a letter to a young woman in a narrow street.
This painting is not necessarily in need of restauration although it has one area, where the paint is roughended up and greyish (about 3cm x 1cm or 1,5'' x 0,4'') as you should be able to see in my photo.
Also the paint in the face of the young woman receiving the letter doesn't look great, if you look at it really up close or with a magnifying glass it looks more like the face of the joker from batman, than the face of a young woman, but this "damage" could have been produced through different reasons (maybe the painter was really not good with small details, maybe the paint was damaged after the painting was finished by heat or something, maybe...) - but as long as you do not get really really close you won't be able to recognize her face anyway!
The signature "Spitzweg" is on the edge of the top stone of the left baluster (is that the right word?) but really hard to see on this photo (as mentioned above there are better pics, also of details, to come soon...).
My main concerne with this painting is to make sure, that it's really not a painting of Carl Spitzweg himself, before I look for the best place to sell it...
Thanks for any of your answers and god bless you!
