Bloch

Mixed Media Artwork: Engraved Stoneware Plate with engobe, Glazes, Acrylic Painting

"In a Roman Osteria" was painted by Carl Bloch in the year 1866

The setting is in the interior of a Roman osteria. In the forefront, there is a table with three customers: a young man is facing two young women. The one on the right of the man wears a headscarf in the typical garb of married Roman women at the time. The man is seen turning toward the onlooker with an angry expression, whereas the woman at his left is looking with a smiling one, and the (presumably slightly older) other woman looks amused in the same direction. A cat sits to the left of the young woman, silently judging the onlooker.

This art holds a mirror to the original from the oilpainter Bloch with darker, bolder colors. 

The purpose is to get the essence of emotions and gazes , mirroring the scene with a more intensive, nocturnal eye.