Entrance to Zwinger Palace, Dresden, with staircase

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker

(artist)
1783-1852

Title

Entrance to Zwinger Palace, Dresden, with staircase

Date of Production

1829

Medium

graphite with stumping and traces of white bodycolour on light grey wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 41.6 cm
Width: 27 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.3277

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

Related Works (2)

Zwinger Palace, Dresden D.1959.WF.4680
Zwinger Palace, Dresden Entrance to the Zwinger Palace, Dresden G.1990.WL.7056
Entrance to the Zwinger Palace, Dresden

Label Text

The Zwinger, a masterpiece of the baroque aesthetic begun in 1709, was built for Augustus the Strong of Saxony as an outdoor theatre for royal entertainments. Prout visited Dresden on the way back from a trip to Prague via Brunswick, Bohemia and Saxony in the summer of 1829. Two watercolours, an etching (in 'The Keepsake' of 1828-1833) and a lithograph were subsequently derived from this drawing. The hooked lines which are characteristic of his style, and derive ultimately from the work of Canaletto, are particularly effective in conveying the complex architecture.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right (within drawing, on pillar), graphite, colour notes: "grey / y"; lower centre (within drawing, to right of staircase), graphite, colour notes: "yw / purple2; lower right edge, graphite, location: "Dresden Zwinger Palace".

Provenance

the artist's estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 19 - 22 May 1852, probably lot 366; Sir Thomas Barlow, Manchester (1883-1964); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 5 May 1943, lot 41; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £8 (along with D.1952.RW.3278); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Witt Collection - Four Centuries of Drawings, Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/04/2004-20/06/2004
English Travellers in Romantic Germany, Goethe Institute, London, 08/10/1994-05/11/1994
Turner, Prout, Steer: Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980-1980
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English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
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Literature

Lockett, Richard, Samuel Prout, 1783-1852, London, V&A, 1985
under no. 55
Turner Prout Steer Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980
no. 9 (Prout)
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 49
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Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 38
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 60
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