River Landscape With Shepherdess And Ruins Signed Christian Georg Schütz

Oil on canvas. Signed " Schütz fecit" on the ruin to the right of the shepherdess. Christian Georg Schütz the Elder captures an idyllic and serene landscape, crossed by a winding and slow river; on the right bank stand some architectural ruins of classical structures, while in the foreground, seated in the center, serene and composed, a shepherdess spins wool while watching over her small flock of goats and cows. The painting is a hymn to nature, where the naturalistic elements, the earth, the sky, the river meet to form a harmonious and balanced scene, pervaded by pink light, in which the living figures and the architectural remains fit in with balance and calm. Schütz mainly painted river views of the Rhine and the Main, places he inhabited, and worked for important German clients, nobles and prelates. The painting has participated in several art auctions. Restored and relined, it is presented in a period frame.