# Paul, Maria, and Filomena von Putzer [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WASMANN, Friedrich]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 38 x 49 cm ## Commentary This group portrait is strikingly reminiscent of far earlier American portraits in which the clothes, poses, and settings were all prepainted by itinerant artists, made ready for the purchaser's selection, with only the heads needing "filling in." Surprisingly, such a modest method could result in sophisticated images, close to those of the three little Putzers. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()