Curatorial Narrative Der Altstdter Ring in Prag, created by Ferdinand Lepie in 1864, occupies a unique position within the oeuvre of mid-nineteenth-century Romantic landscape painters. Lepie’s employment of fine brushwork imbues the canvas with an almost tactile quality, as if the viewer might discern the individual strokes that coalesce to form the scene. The deliberate restraint exercised in the palette a measured blend of earthy tones, muted yellows and browns, tempered by soft blues in the distant sky lends an air of contemplative gravity to the work.Upon enlargement to 59×44 inches, the spatial depth inherent to Lepie’s composition becomes increasingly pronounced. The layered architecture of the Altstdter Ring, situated against a diffuse atmospheric backdrop, assumes a sense of three-dimensional mass that effectively occupies the space in which it resides. When juxtaposed with richly textured materials such as hand-hewn stone