A Village on Fire Frame:none and a shift towards a

and a shift towards a more classical treatment of light

which seems possible (note on photograph mount in Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie

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

was probably carefully worked out in the early 1630s until the artist was happy with the final composition

The entire scene is carefully arranged

A Village on Fire Frame:none and a shift towards aCatalogued 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.