"Salzburg-Vienna: Circle of Hans Makart - Majestic Allegorical Over-Door Painting with Fauns and Putti"

(1840 Salzburg – 1884 Vienna) Circle of Hans Makart. A large allegorical overdoor painting with fauns and putti. A 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 hunting horn next to a still life of hunting trophies, as well as another putto with a lobster and a jug on a small table; in the lower right corner, large pink flowers. Decorative painting from the era of the Vienna Ringstrasse, influenced not only by the prince of painters, Makart, who impressed in the 1870s and 1880s with his magnificent works in the tradition of Titian and Rubens, but also by the luxurious "Makart style" named after him, which shaped both bourgeois and aristocratic interiors of his time. Oil on canvas; approximately 82 cm x 221 cm.