A Classical Idyll
A Classical Idyll by Austrian Painter Hans Zatzka (1859 – 1945); also known as P. Ronsard, Pierre de Ronsard, o H. Zabateri and he signed many of his works as Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard, or Bernard Zatzka to avoid the penalties of braking contracts that limited how many works he could sell.
This is a beautiful floral painting contain two attractive young ladies and a putto in what may be a very large garden, that are standing by a very large decorative hand painted planter with a large bouquet of flowers and plants and a large white tree with white flowers and addition beautiful red, yellow and green flowers; while just in front of and to the side of the planter is a very large fountain with water overflowing its sides that is slightly covered by a large heavy light blue drape.
One young lady with black hair and red flowers in it, is dressed in a gold dress with a sheer red shawl over the upper portion of her right arm; carrying a bunch of red flowers with a long off red ribbon under her left arm that as a silver arm band on it.
On her right forearm is a three ring gold bracelet, and in her right hand she is holding a white flower with a yellow center that she is handing over to the other young lady that has golden brown hair.
This young lady is adorned with a large gold ringed earring and violet-blue flowers in her hair that is partially covered in a sheer linen light green veil, that compliments the color of her white and green dress and green gold embroidered shawl that she is holding in her right and as it goes around the back of her waist and is held by her left hand.
In her right forearm is a wide gold bracelet and on her left forearm is another bracelet composed of three gold rings that compliment the look of her gold earring and gold necklace the drapes down to the middle of her chest.
Around her waist is a wreath of white and pink roses, as three pigeons, one that is white, one that is white and grey and one that is grey fly towards her with more flowers to bestow upon her.
There are even colorful butterflies that are flying about her to adorn her as well; with the putto flying up behind her fixes her hair as he adds additional flowers to it.
The rest of the image is decorated with a light blue sky, red plants, large tan grasses, white flowers and a river with more trees on the opposite bank; and a possible white column behind the planter.
A Classical Idyll is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas, acrilicu, metallu è legnu art prints online.
Info sottu Derivatu da Wikipedia.org
Hans Zatzka era qualchì volta cunnisciutu cum'è P. Ronsard, Pierre de Ronsard, o H. Batteria, è hà firmatu assai di e so opere cum'è Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard, o Bernard Zatzka.
U scopu di a vasta gamma di pseudonimi di Zatzka era di evità penalità di rupture di cuntratti chì limitavanu a quantità di opere d'arte chì puderia vende..
This has caused some art databases to conflate Zatzka’s work under the pseudonym Joseph Bernard with the French sculptor with the same name.
Hans Zatzka hè natu 8 Marzu 1859 in Viena. U so babbu Bartholomaüs era un travagliadore di custruzzione, è a so mamma era Marie Karpischek Zatzka.
Trà 1877 è 1882, studiò à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts, sottu Christian Griepenkerl, Carl Wurzinger, è Karl von Blaas.
Zatzka hà sappiutu guadagnà a vita attraversu a pruduzzione di affreschi per e chjese è altre istituzioni.
In 1885, Zatzka hè statu incaricatu di creà a fresca di u tettu A Naiade di Baden in Kurhaus Baden.
Many of Zatzka’s works were religious paintings and altar pieces dedicated to various churches in Austria.
Tuttavia, hè più cunnisciutu per i so pitture di donne, fate, e altre scene fantastiche.
Often, he would draw inspiration from the works of Richard Wagner and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, several pieces by Zatzka were photographed and made into commercial and collectable postcards.
During the 1920s, Zatzka’s style became the decor of choice throughout Europe. In più, the previous thirty years held a resurgence for Zatzka.