Forest landscape with a hunter and a peasnt girl was executed by Germpan genre and landscape painter Wilhelm ("Willy") Karl Paul Moralt (1884 Munich -  1947 Lenggries). Willy Moralt came from a long-established family of musicians. He was the son of the royal chamber musician and landscape painter Paul Moralt (1849–1943), a student of Carl Spitzweg and Christian Morgenstern, and his wife Maria, née Julier.

At the age of 15, he undertook extensive travels to Württemberg, Baden, and Alsace. Recognizing his talent, his father sent him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he became a student of Karl Raupp. After two years of study, Moralt received the Bronze Medal of Honor for landscape paintings exhibited at the Glaspalast (Glass Palace). The art dealer Demeter was a friend and financial supporter of his. Moralt lived in Munich.

He was awarded the Gold Medal at the 1924 International Art Exhibition. During the Second World War, he lostritt his Munich apartment in a bombing raid. He subsequently moved to Lenggries, where he died on February 18, 1947.

Moralt became known primarily as a copyist and imitator of Spitzweg, whose painting style he had so thoroughly internalized that his paintings could sometimes be mistaken for originals by Spitzweg, especially since they were occasionally signed by him. When he wasn't directly copying, he combined Spitzweg's motifs, such as his popular depictions of hermits or groups of travelers in the landscape, into new compositions.

He also painted light-filled Bavarian landscapes in a more modern, yet naturalistic style, comparable to Rudolf Reschreiter and Edward Harrison Compton. Furthermore, he distinguished himself as an illustrator for Karl May's Illustrated Travelogues (from 1907 

Literature: Artist lexicons by Thiem/Becker; Saur.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on wood. Original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 15 3/8" x h 11" (39 x 28 cm), framed w 27 1/8" x h 22 3/4" (69 x 58 cm).

Condition: good.