A Village on Fire Frame:none The entire scene is carefully

The entire scene is carefully arranged

The subject is perhaps Venus gathering the golden apples which she then used to aid Hippomenes in his race with Atalanta (Ovid

An ancient temple provides the architectural backdrop against which the action is staged

and a shift towards a more classical treatment of light

from whom the motif derives

A Village on Fire Frame:none The entire scene is carefullyCatalogued as David Teniers the younger until 1880, and then as David Teniers the elder. The artist of "A Village on Fire" could perhaps be an anonymous follower of Aert van der Neer, a Dutch painter often depicting the effects of a fire in a nocturnal landscape.