...Depth is reduced to a minimum, to a colorful surface pattern together. On the other hand, the portraits of his own family are quite different, and they look subdued and reflect the patriarchal social structure. In the tableau , Righini presents himself in his dark garb - standing apart from the family table and next to his a picture gallery of his ancestors. He wears the same outfit he wore in his life-sized self portrait of 1914. Confident, almost terrifying, he fixes us with his half-shaded eyes. Incidentally, the well-known Zurich artist Hanny Fries (1918-2009) was Righini's granddaughter. [Google translation of text at https://www.artlog.net/de/kunstbulletin-10-2016/sigismund-righini]