Landscape with a Large Building
Von Hauslab is a little known figure in the history of art. A private tutor to the future Emperor Franz Joseph I, high-ranking military officer, and innovative cartographer, he traveled widely. It is his role as a map maker that helps to explain the meticulousness of this topographical drawing, although the building depicted remains unidentified. The minute precision of the graphite rendering contrasts with the loose and expressive treatment of the landscape and sky in a watercolor of the same subject (53.600.3678).
Artwork Details
- Title: Landscape with a Large Building
- Artist: Franz von Hauslab the Younger (Austrian, Vienna 1798–1883)
- Date: 1818–83
- Medium: Graphite, squared
- Dimensions: 14 7/8 x 19 1/2 in. (37.8 x 49.6 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
- Object Number: 53.600.3637
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Franz von Hauslab the Younger
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