Landscape with a Large Building

1818–83

Not on view

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).

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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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Landscape near Constantinople, Franz von Hauslab the Younger Austrian, Pencil on tracing paper, mounted (backward) on paper. — Landscape near Constantinople
Franz von Hauslab the Younger
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Sketch of the Monastery of St. George Chalkis, Franz von Hauslab the Younger Austrian, Pencil on tracing paper mounted on laid paper. — Sketch of the Monastery of St. George Chalkis
Franz von Hauslab the Younger
19th century

Self-Portrait, turned slightly to the left, Käthe Kollwitz German, Pen and different shades of gray-black ink — Self-Portrait, turned slightly to the left
Käthe Kollwitz
ca. 1893

La table servie, Jacques Villon French, Graphite and black ink, squared in graphite, French — La table servie
Jacques Villon
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Interior of the Alhambra(?), Franz von Hauslab the Younger Austrian, Pencil on four sheets of tracing paper mounted onto laid paper. — Interior of the Alhambra(?)
Franz von Hauslab the Younger
19th century

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