The Great Gallery in the Louvre, 1791

Blatt: 385 x 496 mm

Physical Description: Brown ink and brush over grey pen on ribbed laid paper, #?, with gilt frame

Inventory Number: 1206

Object Number: 1206 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Texts

About the Acquisition

In March 1815, the Frankfurt businessman and banker Johann Friedrich Städel bequeathed his entire fortune and art collection to a foundation which was to be named after him: the 'Städelsches Kunstinstitut'. However, he also dedicated the foundation to the citizens of Frankfurt immaterially, wishing it to be an "adornment and of practical use" to Frankfurt's citizenry. He was thus the first ordinary citizen in the German-speaking region to found a public art museum: the present-day Städel Museum. When he died, his collection comprised 476 paintings, some 4,600 drawings, almost 10,000 printed graphics and valuable books.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: The Great Gallery in the Louvre

Draughtsman

Constant Bourgeois

Period Produced

18th century

School

classicism

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Brown ink and brush over grey pen on ribbed laid paper, #?, with gilt frame

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

French

Production Reason

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Signiert und datiert unten links (mit der Feder): C. Bourgeois 1791

Captions Added Later: Verso bezeichnet (mit der Feder): Grand Gallerie Du Louvre avec lescallier pour monter Dans les Camber
Verso Marke des Kunsthändlers Guillaume-Jean Constantin, Paris (Lugt 3000); Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

Nicht geprüft

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Administration

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: CC BY-SA 4.0 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

architecture

Main Motif

Persons Shown

Associated Persons and Institutions

Iconclass

Primary

61F(LOUVRE (Paris)) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (LOUVRE (Paris))
41A2111 gallery (spacious corridor)
47G3 making the overground structures (~ building activities)
48C113 architect offering design or model to patron
47G41 scaffold (~ building activities)