1878
\nResidenzgalerie Salzburg, 468<\/p>\n
Anton Romako\u2019s Portrait of a young Man<\/em> shows a narrative; an elegant gentleman in a tailcoat and red cravat is occupied in lighting a cigarette. His face and hands are finely modelled, while his body and the objects on the right are more roughly sketched, and the background is painted in diffuse chiaroscuro, in shades of brown and red. Anton Romako Portrait of a young Man 1878 Residenzgalerie Salzburg, 468 Anton Romako\u2019s Portrait of a young Man shows a narrative; an elegant gentleman in a tailcoat and red cravat is occupied in lighting a cigarette. His face and hands are finely modelled, while his body and the objects on the right are more roughly […]<\/p>\n
\nThe man in the painting shows a certain similarity to the oft-portrayed journalist and politician Henri Rochefort (1830\u20131913).
\nRomako\u2019s eccentric pictorial language, which overstretched contemporary conceptions of art, made him a precursor of the Austrian Modern period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"