Gothic Cathedral Behind a Pond with Swans

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "Schinkel"

Provenance

Private Collection, Berlin; Christie’s, London, October 11, 1995, lot 1. Sold by Gertrud Rudigier Kunsthandel, Munich, to Dorothy Edinburg, Brookline, MA., 1996; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection," June 11-September 7, 1999, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 81, cat. 52 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Publications

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 81, cat. 52 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Karl Friedrich Schinkel / German, 1781-1841
Date: 1810/15
Medium: Pen and brush and brown wash, with brush and brown wash and watercolor, over graphite, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 24.4 × 18.5 cm (9 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Germany
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 2013.1023

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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.