Lot 156 Dα

This work shows a view from the left bank of the Rhine over the city of Bonn in the river valley and towards the impressive Siebengebirge mountain range on the horizon. The ruins of the Godesburg can be seen rising from a jagged rocky outcrop in the right mid-ground whilst in the foreground a shepherd and his dog watch their sheep beside a shrine.
The presence of the medieval Godesburg castle and the Christian shrine in this panoramic landscape which, save for the shepherd, is devoid of all human inhabitants, reveal two of the primary impulses of Romantic painting. In a compreshensive expertise by Dr. Wolfgang Vomm, who will be including this painting in his forthcoming catalogue raissonné of works by the artist, the piece is allocated to a group of works which Scheuren painted around 1850. Dr. Vomm presumes this painting to be a pendant to Scheuren's "Rheinlandschaft mit Drachenfels und Nonnenwerth" kept in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld.