Project for the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo (Section)
1744–1817
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush with pink, gray and ocher wash, over ruled construction lines in graphite
Dimensions
5 7/16 x 9 7/8in. (13.8 x 25.1cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1997
Accession Number
1997.143.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
Giacomo Quarenghi a prominent Italian neoclassical architect (4–1817), this exquisite architectural drawing as a "Project the Alexander Palace, Tskoe Selo ()." Rendered in pen and black ink with subtle brush washes in pink, gray, and och over precise graphite construction lines, it just 5 7/16 x 9 7/8 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints, this gifted work from Mrs. Charles Wrightsman a cross-sectional view of the grand palace in Tsarskoe Selo, the imperial residence near St. Petersburg. Quarenghi, invited to Russia by Catherine the Great, became a master of neoc...