Italianate landscape with Roman ruins

Ref: 2958

Italianate landscape with Roman ruins

Johann Ludwig Giesel

Ref: 2958

Italianate landscape with Roman ruins

Johann Ludwig Giesel

Oil on canvas, lined
42 cm x 39,5 cm
Provenance: from the collection of Maria Antonia Pessina de Branconi (1746 - 1793), mistress of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick (1735 - 1806), since 1781 in Langenstein Castle near Halberstadt; then in the collection of August Wilhelm Rimpau (1814–1892), Langenstein Castle near Halberstadt, inventoried in 1893 by his relative, the art historian Wilhelm von Bode (1845–1929); owned by the family at Langenstein Castle until 1945; later in various museum collections in the former GDR, including Berlin, Dessau, Halberstadt, Halle, Mosigkau, Wernigerode and Zeitz; restituted after 1990.
Description: Johann Ludwig GIESEL
(1747 Dresden - 1814 ibid.)
Italianate landscape with Roman ruins
View of the ruins of an aqueduct and a temple
with striking light and shadow effects
Oil on canvas, lined
verso stamp of the Municipal Museum Halberstadt




Johann Ludwig Giesel

Johann Ludwig Giesel
Johann Ludwig Giesel, also recorded as Gysel or Geisel (1747–1814), was a Dresden-born German painter and fresco artist. Rather than a medallist, he is best documented through landscape and decorative painting. His work belongs to the late eighteenth-century Saxon tradition, combining architectural settings, scenery and carefully composed natural views with the disciplined craftsmanship of courtly decorative art.

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