# Classical Landscape

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FERG, Franz de Paula](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ferg-franz-de-paula-rd0bf1cf3136289>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on copper, 22 x 18 cm

## Commentary

This painting is one of a pair of classical landscapes. Ferg painted many such pairs of pastoral scenes. The present painting shows a classical landscape with a family resting by the ruins of a fountain, a man with a pack-donkey passing by. Its companion piece depicts a classical landscape with a family resting by the ruins, a boy struggling with an obstinate pack mule. A prolific artist, Ferg specialised as a painter of small-scale landscapes and genre scenes in the manner of the Dutch seventeenth-century masters, particularly Philips Wouwerman.

## Related artworks

- [Classical Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ferg-franz-de-paula-rd0bf1cf3136289/classical-landscape-r611f70b7d435d2>)
- [Italianate Landscape with Figures by Classical Ruins](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ferg-franz-de-paula-rd0bf1cf3136289/italianate-landscape-with-figures-by-classical-ruins-rafb0157e0ba33a>)
- [Italianate Village Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ferg-franz-de-paula-rd0bf1cf3136289/italianate-village-landscape-r127b8e1dd7806b>)
- [Italianate Village Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ferg-franz-de-paula-rd0bf1cf3136289/italianate-village-landscape-reecfa74d8e9aa3>)
- [Rest](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ferg-franz-de-paula-rd0bf1cf3136289/rest-r2107cd07f9243f>)

## Attribution

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