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

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1963

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Louis Gustave Taraval

1738–1794SwedenFrance

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.