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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 10231460, member: 1476&quot;]I used Google Images to find similars.&nbsp; It&#039;s a valuable tool for collectors in any category.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is doubtful that the artist was a Reinhold.&nbsp; As above, yours are decorative paintings (which don&#039;t appear to be by the same hand, by way) and were likely signed with that name because it was well-known and respected in German art. This signature even appears to have been added later as it&#039;s (quickly and clumsily) overpainted.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511427[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The figures may well have been added to the Lake Würmsee etching because tastes in paintings had moved on and their addition made the work more desirable to potential buyers.&nbsp; It&#039;s a quickly done, simplistic copy and the perspective was changed in the doing; that&#039;s probably what your eye is catching.&nbsp; The viewpoint is the same but the painter wasn&#039;t able to capture the painting&#039;s depth -- look how the landscape recedes far, far into the background in the original -- so the scene is telescoped which gives you the sense that the figures are slightly oversized and coming right at you.</p><p><br /></p><p>This photograph doesn&#039;t help me understand how one of the paintings is mounted but, even so, it&#039;s not what I&#039;d expect to see backing a period work.&nbsp; (And please, in the future, don&#039;t post a photograph without its correct orientation.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511436[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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