Design for a City Gate in Trier, 1746

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash and watercolor over traces of graphite on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 41.6 x 46.9 cm (16 3/8 x 18 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.131

Artists / Makers

Balthasar Neumann (artist) German, 1687 - 1753

Image Use

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Inscription

(all by the artist in brown ink) signed and dated at bottom right: Würtzburg 8. Ma 1746/Balth. Neumann Obrister.; at top center, Littera A; at top right: Grundtriss, auftrag und Profill eines statthors zu Trier, bey St. Simeon; at bottom left, beneath the elevation: auftrag oder prospect; at bottom left, beneath the ground plan: grundriss von dem Statthor; at bottom right, beneath the cross section: Profill oder/-lichen Durchschnid; at bottom right: scale from 1 to 20

Provenance

(sale, Christie's London, 1 July 1997, no. 223). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 22.

Bibliography

1998: Scherf, Gregor. "Ein Entwurf Balthasar Neumanns für das Simeonstor." Neues Trierisches Jahrbuch 38 (1998): 95-103 (reprod.).