Forest Landscape with an Open Vista at Left

Forest Landscape with an Open Vista at Left


Details

Museum
Belvedere
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
35 × 50 cm

The story

The title the Belvedere gives this panel simply describes how it is built. A wall of old trees and rock fills most of the picture. On the left it opens onto a valley, with buildings on a hill and blue mountains beyond. Some of the leaves have already turned gold. Down on the sunlit track a small party passes through, a heavily loaded cart, a woman carrying a bundle on her head with a child beside her, a dog, and a man pointing the way ahead. In the foreground two more figures pause by a pile of cut branches. Nothing on the panel gives a year, and the museum leaves it undated. Janneck did sign it, at lower right, with F. C. Janneck fe., short for the Latin fecit, made it.

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