Sea Coast with Ancient Architecture and Peasants

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The composition and staffage figures of this painting are strongly reminiscent of Sea Coast with Ancient Architecture and Peasants, which is kept in the Narodna galerija in Ljubljana (Cat. No. 108). However, the treatment of some details, especially the mountains on the left, is rather superficial and suggests the intervention of the painter’s workshop. The staffage figures are very lively, they recall the figures in the paintings of the Roman bamboccianti and Luca Carlevarijs. The depiction of the sky is modelled on Salvatore Rosa.

Artist Franz Ignaz Josef Flurer

Year of creation (c. 1720)

Technique oil, canvas

Dimensions 128 x 159 cm

Inventory number private collection

Collection 1700–1800

Restored: 1960, Štefan Hauko.
Provenance: LBG, Graz, No. 236, until 1903; then transferred to Rogaška Slatina spa to furnish its rooms; acquired by the Narodna galerija 1932, old Inv. No. 435.
Exhibitions: 1960, Ljubljana, No. 77; 1961, Ljubljana, no Cat. No.; 1983, Ljubljana, No. 65; 1985, Belgrade, No. 36.
Lit.: Cevc 1960, p. 34, Cat. No. 77, Fig. 41; Cevc 1961, p. 25, no Cat. No.; Zeri [& Rozman] 1983, p. 142, Cat. No. 65, Fig. 64.