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Probably German school depicting a romantic landscape with a traveler.
Beautiful early painting depicting a romantic landscape with a solitary figure from behind, walking through a rocky valley dominated by tall trees.
The composition is organized around a play of chiaroscuro, with a luminous opening in the center revealing a mountainous horizon, while the dark masses of trees and rocks frame the scene with power.
The iconography of the Wanderer - a figure dear to the German tradition - lends the work a symbolic and introspective dimension, inherited from nineteenth-century Romanticism.
The brushstrokes are lively in the rocks, more subdued in the skies and foliage, with a warm palette of browns, ochres and deep greens, typical of the Germanic schools.
Beautiful old patina, re-coated, mounted on original keyed stretcher.
Ref: N2Z6M71FX8