A pair Venetian views by well-renown Austrian landscape and architecture painter Carl (Karl) Kaufmann (1843-1905). He studied at Vienna Academy and was active in Vienna in the 1900s. His Venice, Rome and oriental cityscapes brought him the world glory.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of Austrian artists, Vienna, 1975; Artist´s Lexicons by Thieme/Becker (Leipzig, 1999).

Inscription: both signed with Kaufmnn's proved pseudonym Garnier,  lower right.

Technique: oil on wood panels. Original period gilt frames.

Measurements: each  unframed w 12 1/3" x h 7 1/8" (31,5 x 18 cm), each  framed w 20 2/3" x h 15 3/8" (52,5 x 39 cm).

Condition: both are in  good condition.