Basic information
Artist: Eugen von Ransonnet
(b. 1838, Austria, d. 1926, Austria)
1869
Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Description
This artwork is about the forest which next by a river. It graphically shows the green plants in the forest, such as trees, and grass. There is a small boat on the river and there is a man inside the boat and rowing the boat. He looks lonely but he really enjoys the forest view and the fresh, clean air here.
Profile of artist
He was the son of Privy Councilor Karl Freiherr Ransonnet von Villez, Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Auditors and Margarethe, daughter of Field Marshal Lieutenant Franz Ludwig Count of Bigot de Saint-Quentin. He started his studies at the age of eleven at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1855 to 1858 he studied law in Vienna and entered in 1858 as a ministerial office in the Kuk Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This also began his diplomatic career. In his free time, his whole love was devoted to the natural sciences, photography, and painting, but above all to color lithography.
He published, among other things, travel from Cairo to Tor to the Coral Banks of the Red Sea (Vienna 1863), undersea landscape , several paintings painted on coated paper under a diving bell with the fauna and flora of coral reefs of the Indian Ocean (c. 1864/65), sketches of the Inhabitants, Animal Life and Vegetation ... of Ceylon , with 22 toned and four colored lithographs (Vienna, 1867, German: Braunschweig, 1868), sketches from Singapore and Johor (1868) as well as travel pictures from East India, Siam, China and Japan ( Graz 1912).
-From Wikipedia
Reasons
1- The light green color makes me feel that I am close to the natural and it give my heart a clean wash.
2- The lonely boat moves my heart. It is in this deep forest alone. It lets me feel when lonely cover you, you can find a place full of love and peace to have a rest and keep away from our busy stressful life.
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