Design for a Palace Façade: detail of Windows and Doors

Carl Hårleman

early 18th–mid 18th century

Design for a Palace Façade: detail of Windows and Doors by Carl Hårleman

Medium

Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray ink, over black chalk or graphite

Dimensions

9 7/8 x 8 7/16 in. (25.1 x 21.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960

Accession Number

60.632.68

Tags

Windows

About the Artist

Carl Hårleman · 17001753

Baron Carl Hårleman (1700–1753) was a pivotal figure in Swedish architecture, born in Stockholm on August 27, 1700, to Johan Hårleman, a renowned garden architect and head of the royal parks ennobled in 1698, and Eva Johanna Baartz. Fatherless at a young age, he followed in his father's footsteps, beginning his training under architects Göran Josua Adelcrantz and Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. In 1...

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