6061 - Guérard, Emile Bernhard de

Guérard, Emile Bernhard de The Holy Family in a Landscape. Oil on canvas. 98 x 74 cm. Signed and dated lower left: "B: von. Guérard. fecit Rom. 1831". Bernhard von Guérard, who had made a name for himself primarily as a portrait and miniature painter at the Viennese court, increasingly devoted himself to religious and historical subjects in his later years. Beginning in 1827, Guérard traveled to Italy almost continuously, starting with a stay in Venice. In 1831, he was in Rome, where Guérard exhibited his works and where this painting was also created. His stays in Italy mark a late phase of his career, shaped by the local art scene. The choice of a biblical subject and the intimate depiction of the Holy Family at rest thus combine the religious pictorial tradition with that idealized Italian landscape and figurative world. During a later trip to Naples in 1836, he succumbed to the cholera epidemic that was raging there at the time. - Please ask for condition reports for the lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.