3904 - Heinrich Bürkel, attributed, Roman Campagna

Heinrich Bürkel, attributed, Roman Campagna a long procession comprising a couple on horseback with a child, donkeys, a shepherd and a flock of sheep on a path through a flat Italian landscape fringed by hills; at the bottom of the picture, a dog standing over a snake; on the right, further laden donkeys, watercolour in grisaille with white highlights, on chamois-coloured paper, second third of the 19th century, signed ‘Bürkel’ lower left, inscribed on the reverse with the artist’s details and title, signs of age, framed under glass with a passe-partout, passe-partout dimensions approx. 23 x 34.5 cm. Artist information: German genre, animal and landscape painter (1802, Pirmasens - 1869, Munich); in Italy in 1831-32, including stays in Rome and Naples; later active in Munich; source: Thieme-Becker.