IIde Vue du Parc de Neu-Waldeck prise du Pavillon Chinois vers le Midi, from Views of the Park and Gardens of Marshal Count de Lacy at Neu-waldegg
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 20 1/2 x 25 7/8 in. (52.1 x 65.7 cm) sheet: 19 5/16 x 25 11/16 in. (49.1 x 65.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009
Accession Number
2009.393
Tags
Art Historical Context
This enchanting engraving, titled *IIde Vue du Parc Neu-Waldeck prise Pavillon Chinois vers Midi* (Second View of the Park of Neu-Walde Taken from the Chinese Pavilion toward the South), captures a serene landscape from the 1782 series *Views of the Park and of Marshal Count de Lacy Neu-waldegg*. collaboratively by Austrian artists Jakob Matthias Schmutzer Carl Conti, Clemens Kohl and Franz Karl Zoller it offers a precise, panoramic vista of manicured parklands, featuring trees, paths, and distant figures of men strolling amid the greenery. The vantage point from the Chinese Pavilion evokes th...
About the Artist
Jakob Matthias Schmutzer|Carl Conti|Clemens Kohl|Franz Karl Zoller · 1733–1811
Comment on works: copper engraver