This plein air ( open-air) painting was executed by famous German landscape and genre painter Alexander Schmidt-Michelsen (1859 Leipzig - 1908 ) and according to the kind of the stretcher , typical for French producers, it was created by him during his life and study in Paris in the early 1890s.

Alexander Schmidt-Michelsen was the son of a Leipzig banker named Schmidt and his wife Anna Leopoldine, née Michelsen. He started his education 1879 with a degree at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In the 1890s he continued his studies as a pupil of William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian in Paris. After his studies he was based in Berlin. Schmidt-Michelsen mainly worked as a landscape and genre painter. From 1886 he was represented with his works at the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy, the major Berlin art exhibitions and in the Munich Glass Palace. He was a member of the Society of German Watercolour Painters and an honorary member of the Belgian Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes.

Literature: Artist dictionaries (alll in German) by: Hans Vollmer; Thieme / Becker and Friedrich Boetticher. Friedrich von Boetticher.

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas, original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 28 3/4" x h 19 7/8" (73 x 50,5 cm), framed w 32 3/4" x h 23 3/4" ( 83 x 60,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.