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Description: | This idealised pastoral scene, with a picturesque ruin to the centre left and mountains in the distance, is unlikely to represent a specific location, but is probably a capriccio conjured from the artist's imagination. The rustic figures idling in the foreground are calculated to add charm and colour to the image. The capriccio reached the height of its popularity in the later eighteenth century. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (dog) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Ferg, Franz de Paula (Austrian painter and printmaker, 1689-1740) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Decker, Cornelis Gerritsz. (Dutch painter, died 1678) Previously attributed to Ferg, Franz de Paula (Austrian painter and printmaker, 1689-1740) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8670... | Go to resource |
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