Company in a Palace Garden
Franz Christoph Janneck (1703 - 1761)
Company in a Palace Garden
Oil/copper
Picture size 43.00 x 55.00 cm
Framesize 58.80 x 70.30 x 7.00 cm
Framesize 58.80 x 70.30 x 7.00 cm
F.C. Janneck FC (signed bottom right)
605
Currently not in the exhibition
Austrian Baroque
© Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Illustration Fotostudio Ulrich Ghezzi, Oberalm
Similarly to the "Gallant Scene" (Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Inv.-no. 203), the sculpture of Leda and the swan symbolises the electric atmosphere of "Entertainment in a Palace Garden". For both paintings, Janneck used copper, his favourite picture support, to lend brilliance to the colours.
DUCKE Astrid: Janneck Franz Christoph, Entertainment in a Palace Garden, in: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, p. 98