The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
Through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection; L.L. and A.S. Coburn and Alexander A. McKay endowments; through prior gift of William Wood Prince; through prior acquisitions of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Endowment
Catalogue
- Year
- 1834
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 135 × 126 cm (52 1/2 × 50 in.); Framed: 155 × 145.5 cm (61 × 57 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Carl Blechen
Artist
Painting
Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty.
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Pilgrim in the Woods
1825 · Lithograph in black and blue on cream wove paper
Ruins of a Castle
1825 · Lithograph with olive-green tint stone, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper
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1825 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper
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- Carl Blechen
- Year
- 1834
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 135 × 126 cm (52 1/2 × 50 in.); Framed: 155 × 145.5 cm (61 × 57 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1834-011529
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
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