Oberbayerisches Gebirgstal mit Mühle. Wohl 1820s.
Oil on panel.
Signed in the lower right. 42.5 x 53 cm (16.7 x 20.8 in). [AW].

• Atmospheric and detailed landscape with harmonious perspective.
• The Bavarian Alpine foothills around Munich inspired him to create his atmospheric depictions of forests and landscapes.
• From 1805, Cantius traveled with his older brother Johann Georg von Dillis (1759-1841) through Switzerland, southern Tyrol, and as far as Rome.
• In 1833, he became an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
• The work was once in the private collection of the Wittelsbach family.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Heinemann, Munich (with the gallery label on the reverse).
Dr. Werner Freiherr von Grünau (acquired from the above in 1920).
Wittelsbach private collection (probably inherited from the above).
Private collection, Germany (probably acquired from the above before 1995).
In family ownership ever since.