Family portrait of Count Jànos Majlàth (1786-1855), a Hungarian aristocrat who was also a historian and poet, with his wife and two young children.
The arrangement of the heads according to the place that belongs to each family member, the common direction of the gazes, the understanding and the atmosphere of serenity between the four characters, all communicate the atmosphere of middle-class intimacy typical of the Biedermeier taste.
The painting is a contemporary copy of the family portrait made around 1832 by Friederich Von Amerling (Vienna 1803-87) and kept at the Szépmuvészeti Múzeum in Budapest (see detail photo); the contemporaneity and executive fluency support the hypothesis of a study carried out by von Amerling himself in preparation for the main painting.
Oil on canvas of cm. 61 x 77.7, in optimal conservation conditions.
