Very soft masterpiece painting "Family Idyll" from the Biedermeier era was executed around 1840s by good listed Austrian portrait and genre painter Eduard Swoboda (1814 - 1902), the father of the orientalist Rudolf Swoboda. Edward Swoboda was a very renowned Austrian painter of the 19th century. He lived and worked in Vienna. Eduard Swoboda studied at the Vienna Academy under Franz Xavier Petter and Christian Ruben and specialized in portraits of high society , genre and religious paintings including frescoes. He was especially known for genre scenes in the typical Viennese Biedermeier style. Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of Austrian artists, Vienna; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999. Inscription: signed lower right Technique: oil on cardboard. Original period frame. Measurements: unframed w 7 1/6" x h 9 1/4 " (18 x 23,5 cm), framed w 11 " x h 13 " (28 x 33 cm) Condition: in very good condition