Landscape With Figures And Herds Late 19th Century

Hungarian School Bucolic Scene  Landscape with Figures and Herds Late 19th Century oil painting on horizontal canvas, depicting an animated rural scene. On the right of the bucolic composition, a dense and dark vegetation forms the background to a fountain with a mask and a stepped base on which a male profile rests, a bas-relief carved in marble in the foreground. The representation is full of animals and characters, a woman with a child proceeding on horseback, figures of shepherds on foot intent on grazing and tending a small flock of sheep, a goat and three cows. On the left of the painting, a natural scenario opens the eye towards the planted plain, where a landscape with reliefs on the horizon can be seen in the background, immersed in the soft daylight, filtered by the clouds. The compositional model of this work of Central European origin describes a serene and genuine reality, of complete harmony between the figures and the landscape. The painting comes from a private collection in Milan and is in good condition; the canvas is a bit loose and could possibly need a cleaning. It comes without a frame.