Landscapes right out of a 2025 video game but no . . . from the early years of the 19th century instead. Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, watercolorist. Living from 1764 to 1831, he also worked as a civil and military architect for the Emperor Napoleon I.

The Walnut Tree in Benevento (the Witches’ Sabbath). ca. 1816. Italian. Giuseppe Pietero Bagetti, painter (1764-1831). Source: meisterdrucke.uk. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giuseppe_Pietro_Bagetti_-_The_Walnut_Tree_in_Benevento_(the_Witches_Sabbath).jpg though I found it here https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia/?utm_source=newsletter
Woods and Ravines on the Mountains. ca. 1825-1930. Italian. Tempera on paper mounted on cardboard. Giuseppe Pietero Bagetti, painter (1764-1831). On Instagram here (last image) https://www.instagram.com/thewatercolourworld/p/DPRCTUkiBse/ and here http://www.atlantedellarteitaliana.it/artwork-7079.html but I found it here where the content creator has brightened it up a bit. https://visualelsewhere.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/giuseppe-pietro-bagetti-palazzo-reale-torino-woods-and-ravines-on-the-mountains-c-1825-1830/
Arc de triomphe dans les Alpes. Undated, by 1831. Italian. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Giuseppe Pietero Bagetti, painter (1764-1831). Signed on the lower left. Image © Baron Ribeyre & Associés. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.baronribeyre.com/en/lot/97127/10206681?search=&
 Paesaggio con cascata (Sottobosco con monaco). 1815-1820. Italian. India ink and watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard. Giuseppe Pietero Bagetti, watercolorist (1764-1831). Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Torino. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.analisidellopera.it/bagetti-paesaggio-con-cascata/

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