"Salzburg-Vienna: The Circle of Hans Makart - a magnificent allegorical super-door painting with fauns and paths."

(1840 Salzburg - 1884 Vienna) Circle of Hans Makart. Large allegorical supraport painting with faun boys and putti. Segmental arched composition with scenic representation. 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 game, as well as another putto commissioning a lobster and a jug on a tablet, in the lower right corner large rose blossoms. Decorative painting of the Vienna Ringstrasse era, influenced not only by the painter prince Makart, who in the 1870s and 1880s impressed with his magnificent paintings in the tradition of Titian and Rubens, but also by the opulent "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.