Landscape with a Large Building

Franz von Hauslab the Younger

1818–83 · Graphite, squared · Drawings and Prints

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).

Artist

Franz von Hauslab the Younger

Date

1818–83

Medium

Graphite, squared

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953