Die Fruchtbarkeit, umgeben von den vier Elementen

Colors in this work

Artist: Hans Canon
Date: 1875–1880
Medium: canvas; oil paint
Holding institution: Belvedere, Vienna
Palette: Raw Walnut · Brown family · #784B1E · 29%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #4D2509 · 20%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #8F6F38 · 15%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #A08345 · 14%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #B59B5C · 13%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #2C1406 · 4%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #686139 · 2%

Limestone Honey · Yellow family · #CCB275 · 1%

Moss Fresco · Green family · #6C7551 · <1%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #3F3419 · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #651E05 · <1%

Pine Needle · Green family · #2E341E · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #833210 · <1%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #574C3C · <1%

Press Black · Black family · #121A14 · <1%

Slate Night · Black family · #213126 · <1%

Press Black · Black family · #141116 · <1%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #74332C · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Belvedere, Vienna

10 tags

Fertility/Pregnancy/Birth Both · 99%

The title identifies Fertility as the subject, and the image presents numerous bodies, clouds, and apparent abundance-related forms in a generative, crowded arrangement.
Allegory Both · 97%

The title describes Fertility surrounded by the four elements, while the personified figures and arranged atmospheric forms indicate a symbolic rather than ordinary scene.
Human Figure Visual · 99%

Numerous human bodies and partially draped figures occupy the center, margins, and lower portion of the composition.
Nude Visual · 96%

Several prominent figures are nude or partly nude, making the exposed human body a substantial visual subject.
Movement Visual · 93%

The varied reclining, standing, and airborne poses, diagonal gestures, and sweeping cloud forms create a pronounced sense of activity and directional movement.

Dense Composition Visual · 99%

Overlapping figures, cloudlike forms, drapery, and objects occupy much of the picture surface, with forms extending densely toward the edges.
Earth Tones Visual · 92%

Warm browns, ochres, umbers, and muted reds dominate the outer and lower areas, balanced by subdued blue-green passages in the atmospheric field.

Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies the classification as Painting and the medium as canvas with oil paint.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 89%

Broad visible strokes and soft, loosely resolved contours are evident in the clouds, drapery, bodies, and surrounding forms.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1875–1880, placing it in the nineteenth century.

Hans Canon. https://digital.belvedere.at/objects/3220/die-fruchtbarkeit-umgeben-von-den-vier-elementen

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