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Summer day. Four vagabonds in a defiant position, armed with knifes, have surrounded a young man in broad arches. This, the revolver in his hand, covers his back against a long brick wall, brightly lit by the sun. Along this wall, which runs from left to right into the picture, a sandy footpath runs and to the right of the latter a wooden fence. Sparse grass color. Sun from the right. Brick wall lightly blown. Juicy green grass in foreground. Bright blue sky. The figures are used in clay. The left-hand man, wearing a blue blouse, is wearing a military cap with red stripes. Signed to the right: M. Klinger 1873. Artist Monographs XLI (Velhagen & Klasing, 1899), Fig. 21 and to page 14. Acquired in Berlin, 1906.

source: Carl von Bertrab (Bearb.): Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Gemälde in der Sammlung Rudolf von Goldschmidt Rothschild. Frankfurt a.M. 1912.