Design for a Neoclassical Building, Thought to be a School of Arts for the City of Stockholm
Louis Gustave Taraval
ca. 1770–94
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 · 1738–1794
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.