Italianate Landscape with Resting Peasants

The painting depicts a rocky cliff on the left with a small shelter at its base, while a group of peasants rests in the foreground, including a man on horseback conversing with another man and several others seated or leaning nearby; a tall tree on the right and hanging ivy frame the scene as the sea and distant town appear on the horizon. The color palette combines warm earth tones for the figures and rock with cool blues and grays in the sky and distant sea, with light highlighting faces, clothing, and foliage and casting soft shadows. The work is an Italianate landscape with genre figures, featuring a balanced, semicircular arrangement of people around the horse and a broad sky, reflecting Lingelbach’s combination of naturalistic detail and atmospheric landscape.