# Life Class in the Vienna Academy \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [QUADAL, Martin Ferdinand]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary QUADAL, Martin Ferdinand \(b. 1736, Niemtschitz, Moravia, d. 1808, St. Petersburg\) Life Class in the Vienna Academy \(detail\) 1787 Oil on canvas Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna This painting presents the most prominent personalities of the college, including the painter himself sitting on a stool and drawing. To the right of Quadal, Friedrich Heinrich Füger is painting with verve, and behind his easel Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder is depicted. To the right of the model's platform the councilor Maulbertsch is dazzled by the light. ## Related artworks - [Life Class in the Vienna Academy]() - [Portrait of Count Anton Lamberg-Sprinzenstein]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()