Ideallandschaft (Ideal landscape)
Foothill landscape with figurative staffage. In the foreground on both sides deciduous trees, on the right stream with mill. In the centre running into the picture farmers and farmers' wives, on the left embankment with spring, a man sitting there, behind it pasture with cows and sheep, on the left cornfield and farmstead before a small deciduous forest. Mountains in the background.
Signature: "P. v. Bemmel 1715".
Purchased on 2 December 1941 by the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna at the 469th art auction, cat. No. 14; purchased at auction by Dr Richard Ernst, Director of the Gewerbemuseum Vienna, on behalf of the Museum der Stadt Regensburg.
Prior provenance at the Dorotheum remains unclear due to lack of sources.
Museen der Stadt Regensburg
Dachauplatz 2-4
93047 Regensburg
Germany