Walther Wünnenberg, Late Romantic Landscape View along a rural path with two women in the warm light of the evening sun, the women have fetched water from the spring in the left foreground of the painting and are now on their way back to the village on the next hill, below which a river or lake opens up in the background, on the shore of which the silhouette of a town is indicated on the horizon, symbolising for the two the visible and yet so distant urban hustle and bustle; With this painting's stylised retreat into a life close to nature - protected by the chapel in the left half of the picture - the artist locates himself motivically in the late Romantic period, oil on canvas, 2nd half 19th century. Half 19th cent, signed "W. Wünnenberg" lower right and indistinctly inscribed and dated "Df[...]" and "18[...]", framing label "Klingebeil Kassel" on the reverse, craquelure, minor retouches and in need of cleaning, framed, rebated dimensions approx. 48.5 x 66.5 cm. Artist information: German landscape painter (1818 Coesfeld until around 1900), worked as a merchant and railway official, from the late 1850s self-taught in painting, father of the genre painter Carl Wünnenberg, source: Thieme-Becker and Internet.