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AT-00011089View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
About the Artwork
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld belonged to the Nazarenes, a group of artists who looked to early Northern Renaissance art for its simplicity and piety. The artist created this drawing during a visit to his native Leipzig en route to join the Nazarenes in Rome. He depicted the city’s distinctive features, including the oldest German language school in Europe (of which he was an alumnus) and a church where Johann Sebastian Bach served as cantor during the 18th century. The artist himself appears in a self-portrait at right in the pair seen at lower left. He juxtaposed loosely sketched landscape with areas of profuse detail, created with a hard and sharpened pencil reinforced with pen and ink.
Inscriptions
Inscribed and dated at lower left: Leipzig 1817 M. July; stamped at lower right on verso in blue ink: mark of Carl Heumann collection (Lugt 2841a); watermark: H * O S E R [unidentified]
Provenance
Eduard Cichorius [1819–1907], Dresden, Germany Professor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld [1877–1945], Berlin, the artist’s grandson ?-1945: Carl Heumann [1886–1945], Chemnitz, Germany 1945–57: Carl Heumann Estate November 29, 1957: (Carl Heumann posthumous collection sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, no. 320, sold to Erhard Göpel), 1957 1957–66: Erhard Göpel [1906–1966], Munich, Germany 1966-?: By descent to his wife, Barbara Göpel [1922–2017], Munich, Germany 1994-2019: Private Collection, Germany 2019–22: (Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandels, Munich, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH,
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German, 1794–1872)
- Date
- 1817
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 31 x 38.6 x 0.2 cm (12 3/16 x 15 3/16 x 1/16 in.); Image: 15.7 x 23.8 cm (6 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 2022.1
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