Our sheet depicts the famous Rosenlaui Glacier (in German Rosenlauigletscher) in Switzerland located in the Bernese Alps near Meiringen.

On the left of the view a hunter is resting after hunting a roe deer, admiring the splendid panorama of the glacier and its waterfall.

Born in Winterthur, Johann Jakob Biedermann was one of the leading Swiss landscape and animal painters of his time. His works are especially notable for the great attention to detail in his landscapes. As a pupil of Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (1740–1806) he learned the craft of drawing, and under Heinrich Rieter (1751–1818) he practiced landscape and animal painting. Until the late 1790s, Biedermann's oeuvre was dominated by Swiss landscape motifs, but the invasion of the French troops in 1798 forced him to temporarily interrupt his artistic activities and then to continue them abroad. His travels took him to Freiburg, Augsburg, Munich and Dresden, among other places, before he later returned to Basel.