Watercolor and ink pen. Signed left of the center in the bottom margin. On firm wove paper. 37 x 46.5 cm. , the full sheet.
• Brilliant composition bathed in Kobell's typical cool and clear light.
• Kobell attained his realistic style through numerous studies of nature.
• In 1792, he became court painter to the Elector Carl Theodor of Bavaria and was appointed professor of landscape painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1814.
• Together with Johann Georg von Dillis and Johann Jakob Dorner, he is considered the founder of landscape and genre painting of the Munich School.
LITERATURE: Cf. Siegfried Wichmann, Wilhelm von Kobell. Monographie und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke, Munich 1970, no. 66 (illustrated).