Focus on this artwork and analyze the Reception.
Art historian Lucius Grisebach believes the painting is unfinished, even though it is signed, and believes it is one of his private studies that were not intended for the public. The painting is to be understood as a kind of exercise in the use of light for his later official paintings, such as Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci (1852). These studies only became known in the last years of Menzel's life. Menzel's private painting aimed to capture an attractive situation with painterly means. In the private sphere, he anticipated what the French Impressionists but also Max Liebermann, only later publicly represented.
On 14 June 2012 the painting was issued for the stamp series “German Painting” as a 260 cents postage stamp named "Adolph Menzel-The Balcony Room".
Max Liebermann Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci Adolph Menzel Frederick the Great