Johann Matthias Ranftl (1805 Vienna - 1854 ibid.) attr; Resting potato farmers in the mountains A peasant family resting on a hill after the toil of the harvest with the farmer sitting on an upturned wooden wheelbarrow, the mother with two girls, a boy in a straw hat cutting bread and the grandfather cooking potatoes by the campfire. An impressive, narrative, rural genre painting in its realism. Ranftl was one of the most important painters of the Viennese Biedermeier period. He attended the Academy from 1817; in 1826 he made his successful debut at the Academy exhibition, in the same year he went to Russia, where he painted for the Tsar's court, among others. Ranftl lived permanently in Vienna again from 1831 and became a full member of the Vienna Academy in 1849. In several comparable paintings, Ranftl depicted groups of resting figures, such as in his well-known "Rast der Schnitter" (or "Rast der Bauern") from 1845 in the Wien Museum. Oil on canvas; 57 cm x 79 cm. Frame. Attributed to Johann Matthias Ranftl (1805 - 1854). Oil on canvas.