Resting Herdsmen in front of a Ruin
Franz de Paula Ferg (Wien 1689 - London 1740)
Lot-No. 343
Oil/copper, 24 x 35,5 cm.- Landscape a. marine painter a. graphic artist, son of the painter Adam Pankraz F.. He was pupil of G. A. Wasshuber, H. Graf a. J. Orient. In 1718 he left Vienna. After working in Germany for some years he settled in London. His landscapes in the tradition of the Dutch Golden Age take up elements of French painting of the time. - Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), New York (Metr. Mus.), St. Petersburg (Eremitage), Vienna (Hofmus.), Prague (Rudolphinum), London, Dresden a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Franz de Paula Ferg: Resting Herdsmen in front of a Ruin
Franz de Paula Ferg (Wien 1689 - London 1740)
Resting Herdsmen in front of a Ruin
Lot-No. 343
Oil/copper, 24 x 35,5 cm.- Landscape a. marine painter a. graphic artist, son of the painter Adam Pankraz F.. He was pupil of G. A. Wasshuber, H. Graf a. J. Orient. In 1718 he left Vienna. After working in Germany for some years he settled in London. His landscapes in the tradition of the Dutch Golden Age take up elements of French painting of the time. - Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), New York (Metr. Mus.), St. Petersburg (Eremitage), Vienna (Hofmus.), Prague (Rudolphinum), London, Dresden a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.