A village market with an extensive mountainous landscape beyond; and A kermesse with an extensive river landscape beyond

Although best known as a painter of elegant genre scenes in the manner of his close friend Johann Georg Plätzer, Janneck also painted a small number of portraits and landscapes. His landscapes, as exemplified by the present pair, are strongly influenced by the Flemish tradition and also show affinities with his Austrian contemporaries Josef Orient and Christian Hilfgott Brand. Judging from his few dated landscapes, he appears to have been especially productive in this field during his early years in Vienna around 1730. The present works are comparable with the Mountainous Landscape, also of 1729, in the Steiermärk Landesmuseum, Graz, and the signed copper sold, Dorotheum, Vienna, 6 October 1999, lot 306 (1,200,000 schillings [$64,487]).