High quality classical landscapes with sherds and animals were created ca. 1790s by Austrian good listed landscape and still life painter Franz Stöber (1760 Vienna - 1834 Speyer). Pupil of Academy in Vienna under Johann christian Brand, undertook study travells to Switzerland and Holland. Since 1786 he was in Speyer director of the of the picture collection by Cathedral DEK Phillipp Friedrich Baron von Hutten. He painted for this in-whole picture cabinet with andscapes with animals,views and ruins of the Frenchmen of the 1689 destroyed by frenchmen in 1689 buildings , panorama of Rheinfall by Schaffhausen and others.

Literature: H.Fuchs "Dictionary of austrian artists", Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: largest work signed lower left.

Technique: oil on wood panels.Original period gold-plated frames.

Measurements: first painting unframed w 7 1/2" x h 3 1/2" (19 x 9 cm), framed w 10 1/4" x h 6 " (26 x 16 cm); second painting unframed w 7 1/8" x h 3 1/8" (18 x 8 cm), framed w 8 3/4" x 5 1/3" (22,5 x 13,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.