Triumphal arch with three crowns at top, a fountain in the distance
1726
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 15 × 10 13/16 in. (38.1 × 27.4 cm) Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 15/16 in. (44.8 × 32.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.632.22
Tags
About the Artist
Carl Hårleman · 1700–1753
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...