Ländliches Konzert (nach Giorgione)

‘The fairest visions of Arcadian pastoral life have here become reality,’ wrote Schack, ‘and, as we look at this group of fortunate people surrendering to the sweetest pleasures of the moment in an attractive landscape, we find ourselves envying such a blissful existence.’ The mood conveyed by Giorgione’s and Titian’s poesie is echoed elsewhere in the collection in several paintings by Böcklin and Feuerbach.