Serene view of an Indonesian/Polynesian temple with architectural details, set amongst the trees, with three religious sculptural figures in the shaded foreground. Appears to be canvas mounted on board. Signed indistinctly lower left. ‘Mooi Indie’ (Beautiful Indies) was a genre of painting that occurred during the colonial East Indies that captured the romantic depictions of the Indies as the main themes; mostly natural scenes of mountains, volcanoes, rice paddies, river valleys, villages, with scenes of native servants, nobles, and sometimes bare-chested native women. Some of the notable Mooi Indie painters are European artists: F.J. du Chattel, Manus Bauer, Nieuwkamp, Isaac Israel, PAJ Moojen, Carel Dake and Romualdo Locatelli; East Indies-born Dutch painters: Henry van Velthuijzen, Charles Sayers, Ernest Dezentje, Leonard Eland and Jan Frank.Overall size: 22 12 x 17 in.Sight size: 19 x 13 1/2 in.