This work has been studied and authenticated by Professor Hermann Mildenberger.

   During his stay in Northern Germany, Tischbein drew many landscapes that recalled Southern Italy. Some of these views were conceived for a cycle of “idylls” while others were artworks in their own right.

   Indeed art works of such large dimensions as this one were not necessarily preparatory pieces for paintings but could be a truly completed composition. There is a work similar in style and format conserved at the Klassik Stiftung in Weimar: it, too, is conceived of as an idyllic landscape but is set in Northern Germany[1].

   This particular landscape under examination here displays a free association of landscape and architectural elements from Southern Italy.