# In a Roman Osteria

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BLOCH, Carl Heinrich](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloch-carl-heinrich-r5101177209968b>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 149 x 178 cm

## Commentary

This painting is an intensified version of a painting by one of Bloch&#39;s major predecessors, Wilhelm Marstrand \(1810-1873\); specifically his charming Italian Osteria Scene from 1848 \(Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek\). It is one of Bloch&#39;s most popular genre pictures and is typical of his seductive ability to depict objects, details, and clothes with striking realism. Bloch&#39;s genre paintings were usually very amusing, but also often rather strange and very much open to interpretation.

## Related artworks

- [Cleansing of the Temple](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloch-carl-heinrich-r5101177209968b/cleansing-of-the-temple-r9f8cc5d6ea9d6a>)
- [Samson and the Philistines](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloch-carl-heinrich-r5101177209968b/samson-and-the-philistines-re0663d0a39d771>)
- [The Sermon On the Mount](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloch-carl-heinrich-r5101177209968b/the-sermon-on-the-mount-rf8a01968dc340d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)