Romantically Bavarian landscape with a peasant girl at the water source was executed in 1842 by listed German landscape painter Heinrich Dallwig (1811 Kassel - 1857 Munich) . He processed his wanderings from 1836 in the Tyrolean sketchbooks of 1839 and ´46. From 1839 in Munich, he sold his works in Munich Art Union. Dies of an injury after crashing into a whitewater gorge. - Landscapes from the Allgäu and Upper Bavaria, often with staffage. At the beginning trained to Carl Rottmann and Eduard Schleich the Elder, he later oriented himself to Albert Zimmermann and Christian Etzdorf, without taking over their dramatic exaggerations. Instead of the "gallery brown" he paints mainly. in shades of green.

WORKS: KASSEL, National Gallery.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Thieme/Becker, V.8, 1913; Munich painter I, 1981 (Lit.); Schweers I, 1994. - S. Wichmann, Münchner Landscape- Painter in the 19th century, Weyarn 1996.

Inscription: signed and dated (18)42 Munich lower left, on the back of the stretcher signed and dated again.

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

Measurements: unframed w 13 " x h 14 1/8 " (33 x 36 cm), framed w 18 1/2" x h 19 1/2 " (47 x 49,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition..