Jul 29
The Königssee
Artist: Jean François Xavier Roffiaen (Belgian, 1820-1898)
Date: Signed and dated 1860
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom
Description
The Königssee, a lake noted for the cleanliness of its water, is in the Berchtesgadener district of the German state of Bavaria, close to the border with Austria. This view looks across the Königsee to the Salzkammergut mountains; from the rocky, shaded inlet in the left foreground a large barge rowed by peasants in Alpine costume ferries cattle across the lake.
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