Southern landscape with Villa at a lake and staffage

The view is of a hill on a narrow, river-like lake. On the right bank of the lake, a two-storey villa in the southern style with portico. Right from the house an overgrown with high bushes steep bank. Left from the house an Italian landscape with cypresses and umbrella cypress and a tower-like columns pavilion with round dome. In the middle of the lake, a boat with two people. Behind, at the end of the lake a stone bridge with five pillars. In front, on the hill a meadow with sheep. Right from the sheep on the meadow stock two young women in middle-class clothes. On the left side a flowering mullein.

The painting "Südliche Landschaft mit Villa am See und Staffage" by Jakob Philipp Hackert was probably after 1781, during his stay in Italy. The painting is signed lower left by the artist, but not dated.