Lady on the balcony of the Café Bauer Unter den Linden

Pastel painting under a pane of glass. A young lady in a dark dress with a light coloured collar and wearing a dark hat, which partly hides the woman's face with a transparent veil and is decorated with two feathers at the top, sitting on the balcony at the restaurant table and turning to the right towards the events below on the street, her left arm casually resting on the railing of the balcony parapet. In front of the lady on the table a tray with a coffee cup and a glass of water, to the right a bunch of roses (?) laid on the tabletop. In the depth of the left half of the composition, which is divided by the striking diagonal of the balcony parapet leading from the upper left to the lower right, three tables further behind her, three other coffee house guests: a seated couple and a standing gentleman next to them, the gentlemen in a top hat, the lady in an elaborately decorated light-coloured hat. Down on the street Unter den Linden, horse-drawn carriages chase along in front of the avenue trees, which form a parallel diagonal, into the depths of the right half of the picture; isolated carriages and people also in the opposite direction. The colourfulness of the painterly pastel application is unknown, as only one black-and-white photograph of this picture exists. According to the art historian Sibylle Groß, the colouring is probably considerably brighter than in this historical photograph. Signature and date of the painting on the lower right corner of the tabletop: L. Ury // 1888.