A Summer Day in Venice: A Picturesque Sketch

(1840 Norburg/Alsen - 1913 Coburg) Summer Day in Venice. A summer, light-filled view of a lively embankment with a white stone balustrade, beyond which stretches the bright blue Grand Canal, and the silhouette of the city of Venice rises up. This landscape sketch, painted with quick, partially impasto brushstrokes, is reminiscent of the style of Anton Melbye, a student from Hamburg who later studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Gude and in Munich under Arthur von Ramberg. Since 1870, while in Munich, Rasch made numerous study trips, including journeys to Brittany, the Adriatic, and Venice. Oil on wooden panel. Signed and inscribed with the locations Venice and Munich. 20 cm x 29 cm. In a frame.