Bidspirit auction | AUSTRIAN ADOLF VAN DER VENNE

AUSTRIAN ADOLF VAN DER VENNE HORSES ON DANUBE OIL PAINTING - An oil on canvas painting by Austrian artist Adolf van der Venne (1828–1911), titled The Horses on the Danube. The dynamic genre scene depicts two riders - one smoking a pipe and another raising a whip - leading a herd of horses along a rocky shore past a moored river vessel beneath a cloudy sky. Signed and dated near the lower left edge. The back of the wooden stretcher bears a printed adhesive collector label detailing the artist, title, date, and reference literature. Presented in a deeply carved vintage giltwood frame adorned with scrolling foliate and floral corner details. equestrian, drover, csikos, herder, pastoral, 19thcentury, realism, equine, danubian, fineart Dimensions Frame: 34 x 26 1/2 in. Image: 28 3/4 x 21 in. Condition The canvas displays a fine, stable craquelure pattern across the paint layer, most prominent throughout the sky, with light surface dirt and age-appropriate varnish yellowing. The heavily carved giltwood frame exhibits significant gesso and gilding loss at the upper right corner, revealing underlying wood, alongside minor hairline cracking and flaking to the molded corners. Unexamined out of frame.