Oil on panel. With the estate stamp, a gallery label and various handwritten numbers on the reverse. 23.8 x 29.5 cm.

• Picturesque rural scenery in front of the monumental Wetterstein Mountains.
• In this work, Heinrich Bürkel combines subtle painterly precision with a striking faithfulness to reality.
• The Biedermeier painter participated in the World Fairs in London in 1862 and Paris in 1867.
• As early as 1834, King Ludwig I acquired a small painting from the Munich Kunstverein and was followed in subsequent years by numerous patrons from the European royal houses and in North America.
LITERATURE: Hans-Peter Bühler, Albrecht Krückl, Heinrich Bürkel. Mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Munich 1989, catalogue raisonné no. 220 (illustrated) - - Ludwig (Luigi) von Bürkel, Heinrich Bürkel 1802-1869. Ein Malerleben der Biedermeierzeit, Munich 1940, no. 238, illustrated on page 79.