24 Works, December 9th. is Leopold Müller’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #246
Dec 9, 2021
Rest In The Desert In Giza, c. 1874
Oil on canvas
111.76 cm × 210.82 cm
Private collection
Leopold Carl Müller (9 December 1834–4 August 1892) was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works.
Born in Dresden to Austrian, he was a pupil of Karl von Blaas and of Christian Ruben at the Academy in Vienna. Obliged to support his family after his father’s death, he worked eight years as an illustrator for the Vienna Figaro. Continuing his studies subsequently, he visited repeatedly Italy and Egypt, and made his name favorably known through a series of scenes from popular life in Italy and Hungary…