The art of painting on glass, which the Romanian peasants adopted and used for representing icons, continued to develop until the early half of the 20th century especially in some Transylvanian towns and villages and - to a certain extent - in Northern Moldavia. These icons were generally intended for the rural population and sold by the painters in the surrounding villages or markets and sometimes even in remote places. Several 18th and 19th century engravings represent market scenes with icon painters selling their wares. Thus, at the Brukenthal Museum there is a lithograph in colours made in 1819 by Franz Neuhauser which represents a market fair in Transylvania (probably at Sibiu) where one of these icon painters has hung his icons on a pole and is waiting for customers.
