Landscape with a Large Building

Franz von Hauslab the Younger

1818–83 · Watercolor over graphite · Drawings and Prints

Von Hauslab is a little known figure in the history of art. As private tutor to the future Emperor Franz Joseph I, a high-ranking military officer, and innovative cartographer, he traveled widely. The loose and expressive treatment of the landscape and sky in his watercolor contrast with the minute precision of another drawing of the same unidentified building in the collection (53.600.3637).

Artist

Franz von Hauslab the Younger

Date

1818–83

Medium

Watercolor over graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953