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I came across this 14" x 22" painting while searching for Amerling's work. It's another Austrian 19th century painter, Friedrich Loos. (Austrian patrons of the time did not take seriously any artist with a name different from Friedrich.)
It is an interesting example of a cityscape artist's painting procedure. The finished part was rendered in oil, while the cathedral is washed with brown ink. The buildings around her are outlined in ink as well (or pencil?).
I assume Canaletto employed a similar technique. I always thought that rendering of all those intricate architectural details would have been almost impossible without overdiluting the oil paints. Or using ink instead.
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