Monumental panoramic  view of famous medieval castle Ambras in Innsbruck was executed by Austrian -Czech landscape and history painter  Ferdinand Lepié, also Ferdinand Lepié (1824 in Prague - 1883 in Vienna).

Ambras Castle is now museum and is one of Tyrol's most important and most visited tourist attractions and is one of the most important sights in Austria.

Lepié studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts from 1841 to 1844. 1850–1860 he was a teacher at the Strahov Monastery in Prague. One of his students was the later landscape painter Alois Kirnig. He then moved to Vienna and gave drawing lessons at the imperial court.
Lepié created topographically accurate landscape images of Prague and Austrian areas such as the Salzkammergut, the Danube or Baden near Vienna.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künsler..", Leipzig, 1999; Prof.H.Fuchs "Austrian Artists"(in german), Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: signed and dated 1874 lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original hand-crafted full wooden Florentine style gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 38 1/2” x h 26 1/3” (98 x 72 cm); framed w 51 1/8" x h 41 1/3” (130 x 105 cm)

Condition: in quite good condition, upper part ( background) is cracked.