Sleeping Girl with Her Beau

Rotari was an Italian painter of Northern Italy. He became famous as a portrait painter abroad (Vienna, Dresden, St. Petersburg). In addition to his portraits and portrait-like imaginative works in standard format (approximately 45 x 35 cm), Rotari also produced a limited number of larger paintings illustrating episodes of daily life and romantic scenes, of which the present painting in Munich (also titled as The Tickle) is a prime example.