# Youth Picking Oranges [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MARÉES, Hans von]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 198 x 98 cm ## Commentary Although officially considered a third member of the so-called German Romanists, Hans von Marées, long resident in Italy, moved far from the dramatic narrative of Böcklin or the ponderous perspective of Feuerbach. The Berlin-trained von Marées was Germany's major prophet of Modernism, filling a critical role as that nation's Puvis de Chavannes, the French master who was thirteen years his senior. Like Puvis de Chavannes, von Marées followed the Nazarene and Pre-Raphalite revival of wall painting. His major commission was the 1873 murals for the Library of the German Marine Zoological Station on Naples. The Youth Picking Oranges is a life-size oil sketch preparatory to the fresco on the south wall of the library. Though this work is strikingly <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/cezanne/4/1bather1.html'\)" href="/html/c/cezanne/4/1bather1.html">reminiscent of Cézanne,</a> two years von Marées junior, the French painter was almost certainly ignorant of the German's art. ## Related artworks - [Courtyard with the Grotto in the Munich Royal Residence]() - [Das Orangenbild \(The Four Ages of Man\)]() - [Double Portrait of Marées and Lenbach]() - [The Oarsmen]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()