01 Work, The amorous game, Berthold Woltze's The annoying cavalier, with Footnotes, #96

Berthold Woltze  (1829–1896)

The troublesome cavalier/ The Irritating Gentleman, c. 1874

Oil on canvas

height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 57 cm (22.4 in)

Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin

The painting is set in a railway carriage, where there are two men and a young woman. She is dressed completely in black, and stares towards the viewer with tears in her eyes. 

The young woman is dressed in a black cloak over a black button-up shirt and a black skirt. She has a black hair circle, and wears a pair of mostly black gloves, while her black hat sits beside her; she is holding a maroon coin purse and a white handkerchief.

The young woman has suffered a recent bereavement, and may even be travelling back after a funeral. She looks likely that she has just lost her last parent, and is now living alone, and prey to the likes of this annoying and abusive man. More on this painting

Berthold Woltze (born 24 August 1829 in Havelberg; died 29 November 1896 in Weimar) was a German genre painter, portrait painter, and illustrator.

Berthold Woltze was a professor at Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School. In the period from 1871 to 1878 he published numerous oworks in the Gartenlaube newspaper. One of his most famous works is Der lästige Kavalier, translated as "The Irritating Gentleman" or "The Annoying Cavalier."

He is the father of the architectural painter Peter Woltze (1860–1925). More on Berthold Woltze

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