Explanatory note relating to sculpture of Nymphy by Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler
ca. 1850
Medium
Pen and black ink on gray paper
Classification
Manuscripts
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977
Accession Number
1977.382.16
Art Historical Context
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints department, intriguing *Explanatory note relating to sculpture of Ny by Ludwig Michael von Schwanaler* (ca. 1850) offers a fascinating glimpse into 19th-century artistic collaboration. Created by Franz Xaver Schthaler, a leading Bavarian sculptor of the Neoclassical era, the work is rendered in pen and black ink gray paper and classified as a manuscript. Donated in 1977 by Mrs. John De Witt Peltz it serves as a textual and possibly illustrative companion to a sculpture of the mythological nymph by Schwanthaler's son, Ludwig Michael von Schw...