Ludwig Theodor Choulant, The Tiber Island in Rome / Ruin of a Farmhouse. 2nd half of the 19th century. Ludwig Theodor Choulant1827 Dresden - 1900 ibid. Watercolour paintings. One work signed "Choulant" and with the place name "Roma", the other one unsigned and with a grid, partly illegible inscribed in pencil "Vom h[...]". "Roma" minimally yellowed, wavy due to technique as well as verso with small yellowish spots. "Farmhouse" somewhat foxed, margins of sheet trimmed unevenly. Dimensions: 19 x 20 cm, Psp. 44.5 x 31 cm. Ludwig Theodor Choulant 1827 Dresden - 1900 ibid. Training as architect and architectural painter at the Royal Technical Educational Institution and at the Academy of Arts in Dresden,1849 master pupil of Gottfried Semper. 1850/51 trip to Italy and Sicily, longer stay in Rome as well as 1864, 1873 and 1874 trips to Florence and Venice. From 1852 he worked as an architect in Dresden, among other things he designed the church of the Dresden deaconesses' house. As an architectural painter he became especially famous for his views of Venice. 1868 he was appointed royal Saxon court painter, after 1870 he was commissioned to decorate the second Semper opera house, the royal palace and the Albrechtsburg castle in Meissen. Until 1890 member of the Sächsischen Altertumsverien.