Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 1,000,000+ artworks, 85,000+ artists, and 1,800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Once upon a time (the knitting outpost) by Carl Spitzweg — VisualArtsDB

Home
Genre painting
Once upon a time (the knitting outpost)

Once upon a time (the knitting outpost)

Once upon a time (the knitting outpost)

1850

Dimensions: 34.5 × 43 cm
Genre: Genre painting

Styles

Tags

characters-and-emotionswaitingmilitary-and-soldiers

More by Carl Spitzweg

The fisherman

The fisherman

Carl Spitzweg, 1850

Tyrolean toll house

Tyrolean toll house

Carl Spitzweg, 1855

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Carl Spitzweg, 1860

The Book Worm

The Book Worm

Carl Spitzweg, 1850

The serenade

The serenade

Carl Spitzweg, 1855

The Butterfly Hunter

The Butterfly Hunter

Carl Spitzweg, 1840

Backstage

Backstage

Carl Spitzweg, 1860

Englishman in the Campagna

Englishman in the Campagna

Carl Spitzweg, 1845

Resting on the Vine

Resting on the Vine

Carl Spitzweg, 1845

The portrait painter

The portrait painter

Carl Spitzweg, 1855

A visit

A visit

Carl Spitzweg, 1850

Praying peasant girl in the woods

Praying peasant girl in the woods

Carl Spitzweg, 1855