Eduard Schleich (1812-74) trained from 1827 at the Academy in Munich, but soon left to train privately. As a young artist he was inspired by the late Romantic landscape painting style of Carl Rottmann and Christian Morgenstern, and he enjoyed some success with mountain landscapes based on sketches made in Upper Bavaria and the Tyrol. He was influenced by Rubens's landscape paintings in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, by the Barbizon school which he encountered at the Salon of 1851, and by the works of John Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington.

In this Tyrolean landscape a foreground of rugged sloping ground studded with boulders and two low huts abruptly gives way to a sunlit valley; a tall craggy peak opposite dominates the middle distance; beyond, on the right, a lower range of mountains.