Achenbach, Oswald (1827 Düsseldorf - 1905 ibid.)

Lot 3052 limit € 3.800

Oil/canvas, romantic Italian landscape in the moonlight, shepherds in the foreground of the picture in front of ruins warming themselves at an open fireplace, signed and dated "Osw. Achenbach 1893" lower right, very good overall condition with 1 small old rest., framed, approx. 100 x 78 cm, with frame approx. 114 x 92 cm, provenance: formerly a Rhenish private collection, acquired through the Lempertz auction house in Cologne, together with his brother Andreas one of the most important representatives of the Düsseldorf school of painting, his atmospheric landscape depiction in particular is still one of the most popular motifs of the 19th century painting