A Summer Day in Venice: A Picturesque Sketch

(1840 Norburg/Alsen - 1913 Coburg) Summer Day in Venice. A sun-filled summer view of a lively embankment with a white stone balustrade, beyond which stretches the bright blue Grand Canal, with the silhouette of the city of Venice rising in the background. This landscape sketch, painted with a swift, partially impasto brushstroke, recalls the style of Anton Melbye, a student from Hamburg who later studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Gude and in Munich under Arthur von Ramberg. From 1870, while based in Munich, Rasch undertook 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 frame.