Objekt 2402
View over Basel
Description
A couple wearing traditional Basel costume look over the city from the
Bruderholz. On their side sits the painter himself. In the background to the
right, the small Gundeldinger Castle, which no longer exists, is visible. In
the distant city, the choir of the Barfüsser Church and the Münster can be
made out. At the beginning of the 17th century some 10,000 people lived
within these walls. The city lies before us embedded in its surroundings,
the Black Forest, Isteiner Klotz and Tüllinger Hügel. The painting originally
hung in the matrimonial court room of Basel City Hall, fittingly so given
the young couple motif.
Object description
View of the city of Basel from the south
painter: attributed to Matthäus Merian the Elder (1593–1650)
Basel, c.1615
oil on canvas
deposited by the Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt
Inv. 2007.338.