Living Portrait Of Baby Pug, Oil On Wood From 1880 By Artist "mina Hoegel" Well Framed

This beautiful and expressive pug looking at you with a torn letter on its paws is a remarkable work of vivacity by the Austrian painter Nina Hoegel (1849-1929) daughter of Johann Baptiste Hoegel (1820-1883) who was her teacher among her rich education. She began in 1865 to appropriate the art of painting in self-didacticism and she copied the "Great Masters in the Museums. Erasmus Engert who took charge of her in 1869, she made the portrait of great Actors including Joseph Lewinsky. She then opened between her creations and the restoration of paintings for European Museums not without a certain recognized talent ... This delicious and lively representation of a baby pug is a very successful work, as much by the lively and precise touch as by the color, living the animal which looks at you seems after having torn its envelope to come and play with you, presented magnificently in its rich frame of the origin, a remarkable decorative piece and curiosity in perfect condition and of a good quality