The landscape painter and etcher Friedrich Gustav Papperitz was in Dresden student of Johan Christian Clausen Dahl. He then studied in Munich with Carl Rottmann and formed between 1838-41 in Italy on. From this time, the painting comes with the June temple in an olive grove in Agrigento.

Papperitz not lost it in topographic and genre-like details, his concern is playing the warm southern light. From a low point of view, the viewer's gaze moves up to the ancient ruins of Junotempels.

Agrigento was since the middle of the 18th century an integral part for the travelers of the Grand Tour and just the June temple as the highest part of Agrigento granted "by the sea forth a significant sight" (Goethe 's Italian Journey, Ap...