Musizierende Kinder, von einer Nymphe belauscht,

1864

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

198,5 x 93,7 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 15

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11520

Acquisition

1864 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Anselm Feuerbach, Musizierende Kinder, von einer Nymphe belauscht, 1864, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/8MLvXJl4z3 (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

The exact subject of this picture, which mixes landscape painting, genre painting and history painting, has not been identified. To Schack, the landscape recalled that of the Alban Hills, a region on the edge of the Roman Campagna rich in mythological associations. He thought the picture could withstand comparison with Old Masters: ‘Even amid works by Murillo and Giorgione the painting would not lose all that much, whereas most modern pictures ought to fear nothing more than such life-endangering proximity.’