Name: Antique Master Print-POTSDAM-COLONNADE-ROYAL-PALACE-Schleuen-c.1769
SKU: PICTURA-10358
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Antique Master Print-POTSDAM-COLONNADE-ROYAL-PALACE-Schleuen-c.1769

€145.00

‘PROSPECT DER COLONNADE UND DER BEIDEN COMMUNS DES KONIGL. PALAIS BEI POTSDAM, WIE SOLCHE VON AUSSEN NACH DEM WALDE HIN, SICH PR?SENTIREN. / DURCH DAS PORTAL UND ZWISCHEN DIE S?ULEN IST DIE HAUPT-FACADE DES KON. PALAIS ZU SEHEN. / BEY JOH. WILH. SCHLEUEN’

– Centralized view of the New Palace’s Communs and colonnade in Potsdam, seen from the rear, with a moat-like canal in the foreground. A peasant couple sits near the edge, symbolically marking the boundary between courtly and rural space. Trees flank the right side; architectural detail is highly symmetrical.

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Description

Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 43.6 x 26.9 cm (17.17 x 10.59 inch). Image size: 43.6 x 26.9 cm. (17.17 x 10.59 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing and creasing. Little surface damage at top center. Wide margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

POTSDAM, NEW PALACE, COMMUNS, JOHANN WILHELM SCHLEUEN, SANSSOUCI, ARCHITECTURAL PRINT, 18TH-CENTURY ETCHING, GERMAN BAROQUE, PALACE VIEW | PCO-E23-29

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in Berlin, likely by the artist himself (“bey Joh. Wilh. Schleuen”).

Reference: Drescher/Kroll (1981), Kat.-Nr. 411; Berndt (2007), M?rkische Ansichten; Potsdam-Lexikon (2010), p. 321.

Biography engraver: Johann Wilhelm Schleuen (1740?1815?) was a German engraver active in Berlin and Potsdam, known for topographical and architectural views of Prussian cities and palaces, especially those related to Frederick the Great’s building programs.