Henry (Karl Heinrich) Jaeckel (pre 1842-post 1876) View with architecture and figures Oil on canvas 65x100 cm - in frame 80.5x117 cm Signed below: Henry Jaeckel. View at sunset of a glimpse of the countryside in central-southern Italy with houses, a small church and mountains in the background. The great quality of the painting, by a skilled German landscape painter of whom little is known, is confirmed by the sophisticated effects of light and shadow and by the skilful rendering of the remoteness of the mountains in the background.

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