"Salzburg-Vienna: the circle of Hans Makart - a majestic allegorical overdoor painting with fauns and putti"

(1840 Salzburg – 1884 Vienna) Circle of Hans Makart. Large allegorical overdoor painting with fauns and putti. Segmental-arched composition with decorative imagery. On the left side, young fauns and putti with fruits and rolling a large pumpkin; on the right side, a putto with a quiver and a hunting horn next to a still life with hunting game, as well as another putto with a platter of lobster and a jug on a small table, in the lower right corner large pink flowers. Decorative painting of the Viennese Ringstrasse era, influenced not only by the prince-artist Makart, who in the 1870s and 1880s impressed with his magnificent paintings in the tradition of Titian and Rubens, but also by the luxurious "Makart style," named after him, which also shaped the bourgeois and aristocratic interiors of his time. Oil on canvas; approximately 82 cm x 221 cm.