Overall: 26cm (10.2in) x 25.5cm (10in)
Oil on panel.
Half length portrait of a veteran drummer with grenadiers in the distance. Manuscript verso inscribed in German and translated as ‘Our grandfather Franz Josef Saale painted by his two grandchildren Anton Johan and Konrad Shleben for his 50 years service as military drummer in Biberach, Kirschner and Sailer. Rest in Peace’. Contained in period framed.
Biberach, Kirschner and Sailer are small towns in Baden-Württemberg (South Germany).