9/16/15

Carl Spitzweg, The Hypochondriac

Carl Spitzweg, The Hypochondriac painting
Schack-Galerie, Munich

Date: 1865
Technique: Oil on canvas

2 comments:

Dar said...

A very unusual title. not sure how it fits the painting.

Dark Classics said...

Who knows!? Perhaps Spitzweg had in mind a person who, because of obsessive fear, spends all day in the house and therefore life watching from the window.

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