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Project for the Riding-School of the Horse Guards in Saint Petersburg - Elevation of the Side Entrance
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Project for the Riding-School of the Horse Guards in Saint Petersburg - Elevation of the Side Entrance

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush with black-gray, brown, pink, blue, and ochre wash, over ruled construction lines in graphite. Framing lines in pen and black ink over graphite

Dimensions

7 5/8 x 9 7/8in. (19.4 x 25.1cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1997

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giacomo Quarenghi

1744–1817Russian EmpireRepublic of Venice

Born 20 September 1744; died 1 March 1817. Possibly born in Rota Fuori. Italian architect, Rome; died in St. Petersburg, Russia.