File:Konrad Witz. Der Wunderbare Fischzug (1444).jpg

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Konrad Witz: The Miraculous Draft of Fishes  wikidata:Q9019507 reasonator:Q9019507
Artist
Konrad Witz (1400–1445)  wikidata:Q313183
 
Konrad Witz
Alternative names
Birth name: Conradus Sapientis
Description German painter
Date of birth/death circa 1400
date QS:P,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 between 1445 and 1447
date QS:P,+1445-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1445-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1447-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Location of birth/death Rottweil (Württemberg) Basel Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Basel Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q313183
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Title
German:
Fischzug Petri

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes or The Miraculous Peach
title QS:P1476,de:"Fischzug Petri"
label QS:Lde,"Fischzug Petri"
label QS:Les,"pesca miracolosa"
label QS:Lfr,"La Pêche miraculeuse"
label QS:Lsv,"Petri fiskafänge"
label QS:Len,"The Miraculous Draught of Fishes or The Miraculous Peach"
Part of High altar of St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva (destroyed)
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Outer panel of the high altar at St Peter's Cathedral in Geneva otherwise destroyed during the protestant iconoclasm. The other outer panel depicted The Deliverance of St Peter, opened the triptych would have shown an Adoration of the Magi and the presentation of the donors to the Virgin and Child against a background of gold leaf. With Geneva harbor (the "Petit Lac") representing the Sea of Galilee the The Miraculous Peach shows the first topographical accurate representation of a landscape in European art.
Depicted people Jesus, Saint Peter, The Twelve Apostles
Depicted place Geneva harbor as the Template:Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias)
Date 1444
date QS:P571,+1444-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions

149.1 × 169.8 cm (58.7 × 66.8 in) with frame

134.6 × 153.2 cm (52.9 × 60.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q679075
Accession number
1843-0011
Place of creation Geneva
Object history commissioned by François de Metz, Bishop of Geneva, for the high altar of St. Peter's Cathedral
Credit line MAH Musée d'art et d'histoire, City of Geneva. Deposit of the Bibliothèque de Genève, 1843
Inscriptions signed and dated on original frame: Hoc opus pinxit magister Conradus Sapientis de Basilea MCCCCXLIIIJ ("Master Conrad Sage of Basel painted this work in 1444")
References
Source/Photographer https://www.myswitzerland.com/-/media/st/gadmin/images/attractions/museum/01_pechemiraculeuse-gr_245902.jpg

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