Das Feuer

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Felix Meyer1653 Wülflingen (Winterthur) – 1713 Schloss Wyden bei Ossingen
We have 4 artworks by Felix Meyer online.
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The landscape and the burning city are copied from a pen and ink drawing by Johann Franz Ermels (1641-1693) in the National Museum in Stockholm (cf. Per Bjurstroem: German Drawings, Stockholm 1972, no. 98). Some figures are quotations from Raphael's 'Borgo Fire' (1514-1517) in the Vatican Stanzas.
Also known as
Fire
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 115 x 95 cm
Inventory number
64
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by Conrad Stockar-von Orelli, 1846