Antique 19th Century Landscape Oil Painting
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description: Painted on wood panel in 1883, this riverbank scene captures a stretch of German countryside in the last weeks of summer. Trees at their fullest, beginning to show rust at the tips. Water glinting through the left edge. A broad meadow stretching out under a sky full of moving cloud. The composition has the quiet authority of someone who observed for a long time before picking up a brush. Oil on panel was the choice of the Old Masters for good reason: pigment settles deeper, surfaces hold detail better than canvas, and the result ages with more integrity. About the Artist E. Winkelmann was a German landscape painter whose 1883 signature on this panel places him at the center of a tradition that defined German painting in the second half of the 19th century: rigorous observation of the natural world, a sober palette that honored the actual colors of land and light, and the composed, unpeopled scene that lets the landscape carry the full weight of the work. German painters of this period absorbed the influence of the French Barbizon School while maintaining their own careful, unhurried approach to nature. Why We Love It The late-summer greens, deep and heavy, with rust just beginning to show at the crown of the trees. The sky doing real work: not decorative, not an afterthought, but a churning, atmospheric presence that gives the whole scene its mood. And then the frame: walnut with a thin gold inner liner running just inside the edge. That strip of gold is the kind of detail that takes a painting from good to considered. The dark wood holds the earthy palette; the gold catches the warmth already in the painting and sends it back. Everything matches, and nothing is accidental. Key Features: Origin: Germany Medium: Oil on wood panel Period: 1883 Signature: Signed and dated by the artist Dimensions: 11" x 8.3" Condition: Excellent antique condition with a later walnut frame. Please see photos for details. The piece will be shipped from Los Angeles
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