View of well-known nature miracle: The Rhine Falls with castle Laufen by Schaffhausen in the Switzerland was executed in 1852 by good-listed Austrian landscape and animal painter Joseph Johann Rauch (1805 - 1866). He was born in Vienna, his other two bruders Ferdinand and Johann Nepomuk were famous painters too. Joseph Rauch studied at the Viennese Fine Art Academy, where his paintings were represanted on exhibitions from 1826 to 1850.

Literature: Prof.Heinrich Fuchs "Lexicon of Austrian Painters of 19th century" (in German), Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: signed and dated 1852 lower middle.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 28 1/2" x 31 2/3" (72,5 x 80,5 cm); framed w 34 1/4" x 38 1/8" ( 87 x 97cm).

Condition: in very good condition.