# Das Orangenbild \(The Four Ages of Man\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MARÉES, Hans von](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mares-hans-von-re9d856bd26d12d>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Tempera on panel, 98 x 78 cm

## Commentary

The Orangenbild was a wedding present to the painter&#39;s friend, the distinguished art theorist Konrad Fiedler \(1841-1895\). Only thirty years after its completion in 1878 was it entitled The Four Ages of Man. On panel, using the old-fashioned tempera medium, the scene is set in the Garden of the Hesperides - a pagan Paradise - where nymphs guard trees bearing the golden apples, wedding gifts to Hera. Echoes of Poussin, with free &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/s/signorel/brizio/2/index.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/s/signorel/brizio/2/index.html&#34;&gt;quotations from Luca Signorelli&lt;/a&gt; are found in this splendid canvas, whose archaism may also have been stimulated by the popular art of Edward Burne-Jones.

## Related artworks

- [Courtyard with the Grotto in the Munich Royal Residence](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mares-hans-von-re9d856bd26d12d/courtyard-with-the-grotto-in-the-munich-royal-residence-r1961912414cca7>)
- [Double Portrait of Marées and Lenbach](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mares-hans-von-re9d856bd26d12d/double-portrait-of-mares-and-lenbach-r07aed4c4401194>)
- [The Oarsmen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mares-hans-von-re9d856bd26d12d/the-oarsmen-r725bc1ed43d2b2>)
- [Youth Picking Oranges](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mares-hans-von-re9d856bd26d12d/youth-picking-oranges-r813cb788625840>)

## Attribution

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