Lot 59: Joseph Roos

(Vienna 1726 - 1805) Shepherds in the Roman Campagna, monogrammed at lower right, beneath the frame R, oil on canvas, 60 x 77 cm, framed, (Wo)

Literature: Comp. a similar composition in: Hermann Jedding, Johann Heinrich Roos - Werke einer Pfälzer Tiermalerfamilie in den Galerien Europas, 1998, p. 298, fig. 439.
Provenance: North German private collection
The animal and landscape painter Joseph Roos was the son and pupil of Cajetan Roos. Joseph Roos studied at the Vienna Academy and later also in Dresden, where he decorated the Opera. Subsequently he worked in London and Berlin. In 1772 he was appointed Director of the Imperial Collections in Vienna, which he transferred from the Imperial Stables to the Belvedere. In his lifetime Joseph Roos became famous through the three "Rosa Rooms" in Schönbrunn Castle, which he decorated with paintings.