View of village Hallstatt in the Austrian province Saltkammergut, "most beautiful seaside resort in the world ", as Hallstatt was once titled by the explorer and world traveler Alexander von Humboldt in the early 19th century.The author of this painting, famous Austrian-Czech landscape and historical painter Ferdinand Lepié, also Ferdinand Lepgé (1824 in Prague - 1883 in Vienna). Lepié studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in 1841-1844. He was a teacher at the Strahov monastery in Prague in 1850-1860. One of his disciples was the later landscape painter Alois Kirnig. After that he moved to Vienna and gave signs to the imperial court.Lepié created topographically exact landscape images of Prague and of Austrian areas such as the Salzkammergut, the Danube or Baden near Vienna.

Literature – Lepgé (Lepié), Ferdinand. In: Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of the visual artists from antiquity to the present; Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Volume 23: Leitenstorfer – Smith. E. A. Seaman, Leipzig 1929, p. 100.Ferdinand Lepié, in: Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Vol. 3. Self-publishing, Wien 1973.

Inscription: signed lower right.

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

Measurements: unframed w 27 1/8" x h 21 7/8" (69 x 55,5 cm), framed w 38 3/4" x h 33 1/8" ( 97,5 x 84 cm).

Condition: in very good profess. cleaned condition. Old reclining of canvas.