European Painter (late 19th Century) - Lake Lucerne With The William Tell Chapel.

European Painter (late 19th century) - Lake Lucerne with the William Tell Chapel.

39 x 52 cm (unframed) - 41 x 55 cm (framed).

Oil on canvas, in a wooden frame.

Signed lower right: "William".

The painting depicts a view of Lake Lucerne with the William Tell Chapel in the foreground, a votive building erected in 1879 on the rocky shore of Lake Lucerne, at the spot where tradition holds the Swiss hero leaped from the bailiff Gessler's boat. The composition unfolds between the architecture of the chapel on the left, surrounded by vegetation, and the expanse of the lake that opens towards the snow-capped Alps in the background. The loose brushstrokes and the luminous rendering of the water and snow-capped peaks hark back to the tradition of late-19th-century European Romantic landscape painting. The work bears the signature "William" at the lower right, referring to a Northern European painter active among the travelers who traveled through Switzerland between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Condition report: The painted surface is in good condition, with signs of aging and widespread wear.

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