Anselm Feuerbach
Family Picture, 1866
Öl auf Leinwand, 136,4 x 159,5 cm
1866 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Inv. Nr. 11514
Family Picture
The painting combines visual quotations from earlier art with allusions to Feuerbach’s own work. The female figure recalls the woman personifying earthly love in Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love, a copy of which by Franz Lenbach forms part of the Schack collection. Rabbits, symbols of fertility, and fading flowers, evocations of transience, suggest that the image of a mother with her children is to be understood as an allegory of life.