"Beautiful Painting Of Registered Museum, Castle Jenny Salm At Night. 1818"
1396/5000 Johanna "Jenny" Salm-Reifferscheid Czech Republic 1780-1857. Lunar river landscape with fishermen and castle ruins. Signed and dated Jenny Salm. 1818. Oil on canvas, 49 x 62 cm. With the inscription on the back: "Johanna Altgrafin zu Salm-Reiffercheid geb Grafin Pachta Rayhofen." Only a handful of works by this Czech artist are known, all in public collections, three landscapes and two fixed paintings. The current painting is his oldest known work. Landscape with the Church, 1819 (National Gallery, Prague), Beachscene, 1824 (British Government Art Collection (British Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic), Extensive Landscape, 1824 (National Gallery, Prague) Still Life with Lizard and Flowers, 1826 (National Gallery of Prague), Large Landscape, 1829 (Rudolphinum, Prague, Gift of the Artist 1835) and Still Life with Grapes, 1842 (National Gallery, Prague). wife Franz Vincenz Altgrafen Salm-Reifferscheid-Hainspach (1744-1842) She spent her whole life at the court of Vienna as a woman awaiting the Empress of Austria According to Archiv für Geschichte, 1824, page 378, she was Considered a talented landscape artist, in 1826 she exhibited the landscape at the annual Prague exhibition, which was very well received, particularly appreciated for its sophisticated colors .. dimensions with frame 69 x 81 picture on artnet