Lot 38

Jan Zachariáš Quast (1814 - 1891) PORTRAIT OF A LADY WITH ROSES

Quast painted portraits mainly on porcelain, rarely with watercolor or oil. He continued the tradition of Biedermeier and classicist portraits of portraits. To understand the difficulty of painting on porcelain, it is necessary to emphasize that it is a painting based on metal oxides with subsequent firing in the oven, the painter paints with non-colored paints and sees the result only after firing practically without the possibility of corrections. The advantage of porcelain painting is the permanent radiance of colors, resistance to external influences, the disadvantage is the fragility of the porcelain base. Compared to other techniques, this is a much more difficult type of painting.