4314 - Louis Reinhardt, attributed, In the Goat Shed

Louis Reinhardt, attributed, In the Goat Shed View into the dimly lit interior of a shed with goats and a cockerel; a glazed, partly impasto rendering of the animals in subtle brown tones with striking highlights; oil on canvas, c. 1870, monogrammed ‘LR’ in ligature at the bottom left; on the reverse of the canvas, a stamp from the Munich art supplies firm Richard Wurm, founded in 1863, reading ‘Malerleinwand von Richard Wurm München’ (Painter’s canvas by Richard Wurm, Munich), an old framing label from Hamburg on the frame; various annotations and two removed labels on the frame and stretcher, including ‘L. Reinhardt’; signs of age; beautifully set in an old gilded stucco frame; inner dimensions approx. 39 x 49 cm. Artist information: also known as Ludwig Reinhardt, German landscape and animal painter (1849 Plauen? to 1870 in Traunsee), received artistic training in Dresden from 1868, worked in Munich from 1869, influenced by Friedrich Voltz, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Bruckmann, *Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries*, Müller-Singer, Siegfried Wichmann, *Munich Landscape Painters in the 19th Century: Masters, Pupils, Themes* and the internet.