Austrian distance landscape with farmers on the foreground was executed by famous Austrian landscape artist Josef Thoma (1828 Vienna - 1899 Vienna) , who studied at the Vienna Academy and became a very well-known Austrian landscape painter with motifs especially from the Alpine region. Works by him belong to the collections of the greatest Austrian museums and various public collections abroad.

Literature : Dictionary of Austrian Painters of the 19th Century by Dr.H.Fuchs, Vienna 1972; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 24 3/4" x h 13 1/3" (63 x 37 cm), framed w 29 1/8" x h 19" (74 x 48 cm)

Condition: in good condition