Signed and dated lower right: Osw. Achenbach 1879 As a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Oswald Achenbach was one of the most famous landscape painters of his time. Very often, as in our painting, his depictions were based on his numerous trips to Italy, and these Italian landscapes in particular met with enthusiastic interest among his contemporaries and the collectors of the middle classes. Dimensions 42.5 x 61 cm Artist or Maker Oswald Achenbach Medium Oil on canvas Provenance German private ownership in third generation for about 100 years. Notes VAT: Margin scheme