Recovery (according to source) description of the picture in the article alfred rethel in the adb: in the midst of his creative, intellectually challenging activity, the artist had been seized in recent years by a great longing to establish his own home. , when in 1850 his family suddenly received the news of his engagement to miss marie grahl in dresden, which surprised them with great joy. The whole family breathed a sigh of relief, hoping for untroubled happiness. The wedding took place in october of the same year. After a short time the young woman fell into a severe typhoid fever that brought her close to the grave. But she recovered and he celebrated her recovery with a deeply felt composition (1852) imbued with serious beauty, in which the care and nurturing, as well as the heartfelt gratitude for the regained life of the loved ones, are embodied in immediately moving ideal figures. Date: 1852.
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