DEIKER, FRIEDRICH, attr. (Hanau 1792-1843 Wetzlar), 'Mother with child',

DEIKER, FRIEDRICH, attr. (Hanau 1792-1843 Wetzlar), 'Mutter mit Kind', Portrait of a young woman in a white robe with a blond curly-haired, slumbering child standing in front of a green-grey drapery, probably the wife of the artist with her son Johannes, unsigned, oil on canvas, approx. 85x75 cm (98x87 cm with frame). Craquelure a. stretcher impression, tears a. colour flaking, rest. with canvas doubling patches a. prominent retouches. With frame (dam.). PROVENANCE: from the artist's family.