Design for a Neoclassical Building, Thought to be a School of Arts for the City of Stockholm

Design for a Neoclassical Building, Thought to be a School of Arts for the City of Stockholm by Louis Gustave Taraval

Medium

Pen and gray ink, brush and brown, gray, and colored wash, heightened with white, with framing lines in pen and brown ink on paper strips framing the drawing sheet

Dimensions

10 15/16 x 20 11/16 in. (27.8 x 52.6 cm)

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1963

Accession Number

63.707

Tags

ArchitectureBuildingsFountainsCoat of Arms

About the Artist

Louis Gustave Taraval · 17381794

Taraval served as inspector for the Bâtiments du Roi. According to Macmillan, he was influential in the publication of several important architects, including Pierre Contant D'Ivry and Jean François Chalgrin.

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