The painting depicts a biblical scene where Joseph is narrating his dreams to others, likely his brothers, as this is a well-known story from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. The setting appears to be outdoors, with a pastoral background including sheep, suggesting the setting of the biblical land of Canaan where Joseph lived before being sold into slavery in Egypt.
Carl Wurzinger was a 19th-century artist, and this work being from 1845 places it in the Biedermeier period, which is characterized by a sense of realism and often bourgeois domesticity, although this particular painting takes on a historical and religious subject.
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