Theodor Franz Zimmermann (Austria, 1808-1880) large equestrian fox hunting scene painting with four riders and six hounds, one of which bites the neck of a red fox. Thistle grows in the foreground and a rocky hillside rises at right. An expansive landscape with a lake, distant settlement, and a mountain range extends into the background. With partial "T. F. Zimm[er]mann" signature and dated 184[?], lower right (signature and date partially obscured by retouch). Housed in a giltwood frame. Sight: 38 1/2 in H x 60 in W. Frame: 52 in H x 72 1/2 in W. Biographical Note: "Theodor Franz Zimmermann was a well-known painter of landscapes and animals, particularly horses and hunting scenes, and graduated from the Vienna Academy. Between 1839 and 1858 his pictures were often to be seen in its exhibitions. Zimmermann was born in 1808 in Nassereith in Tyrol. He lived until his death in 1880 in Vienna, where he worked in his studios, which he often changed. From 1855 very many of his pictures were commissioned for the Imperial Zoological Collection." (Source: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

Canvas has been relined. Multiple campaigns of restoration and retouching throughout, primarily outside of figures and animals, largest to left and right edges of upper quadrants, extending into sky and landscape, and to 6 inch x 2 3/4 inch area in sky, with patch, upper left. Additional patches also visible en verso. See U/V photography. Frame with minor losses and abrasions.

Private Southern Collection. Elizabeth Auction, Sept. 13, 2020, lot 96. Christies, NY, February 18, 1993, lot 57 (erroneously attributed to Julius Zimmermann).