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The Game of Chess: The Lady Has Won

Josef Danhauser (* 19. August 1805 in Wien; † 4. Mai 1845 ebenda)

Die Schachpartie | The Game of Chess (1839)

Öl auf Leinwand | Oil on canvas

 

In der Sonderausstellung "Bessere Zeiten? Waldmüller und das Wiener Biedermeier" im Oberen Belvedere | At the exhibition "Better Times? Waldmüller and Biedermeier Vienna" in the Upper Belvedere

 

In the newly emerging upper middle classes, so-called salons were introduced, in which women usually set the tone. The salons quickly developed into a part of typical Viennese social life among the wealthy part of the population.

 

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