Josef Karl Rädler trained as a porcelain painter, but spent most of his life as a patient in psychiatric institutions in and near Vienna. There he painted double-sided watercolours, strongly coloured and heavily inscribed. Seven of Rädler's paintings are shown in this series. Here he depicts himself in an artist's soft tie, amid the birds and foliage he often represented on the reverse of his figurative works. His dress is in distinct contrast to the uniform clothing worn by fellow patients in his other works. In the inscription, he dedicates the picture to posterity, and refers to himself as 'Court Painter of Austria and Hungary'.