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298 Marsha Morton Porträt angesehen, und bin jetzt doppelt froh, Ihr meisterhaftes Porträt in meinem Zimmer täglich zu sehen.”21 Müller’s pre-Egyptian genre paintings were scenes of Hungarian and Italian folk life among peasants and gypsies. Several were set in the rural village of Szolnok on the Great Hungarian Plain, like those of his close friend August Pettenkofen whose work Eitelberger regarded as exemplary.22 Many of Müller’s earlier paintings and illustrations, such as Die Zigeuner sind da (1860), Carita, un soldo, Signore ! (1869), and Klostersuppe (in Waldheim’s, 29  March 1862), addressed concerns about poverty and included aspects of Biedermeier genre praised by Eitelberger : an instructive moral message, characters who 21 Eitelberger to Müller, 27  December 1876, ibid., p.  263. The portrait is in the collection of the Belve- dere. 22 R. Eitelberger von Edelberg, Das Wiener Genrebild vor dem Jahre 1848, in : idem, Kunst und Künstler Wiens der neueren Zeit (Gesammelte kunsthistorische Schriften von Rudolf Eitelberger von Edelberg, vol.  I), Vienna 1879, pp.  37–60, esp. p.  60. Fig. 5 : Leopold Carl Müller, Ungarische Marktszene, in : Waldheim’s Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 3, 1. February 1862, p.  28. Open Access © 2019 by BÖHLAU VERLAG GMBH & CO.KG, WIEN