Loading
The Dressing Room of King Ludwig I at the Munich Residence Palace
Franz Xaver Nachtmann1836
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The new wing (Königsbau) of the Munich Residence Palace was built by architect Leo von Klenze in 1826-35 in imitation of the Pitti Palace in Florence. King Ludwig's dressing room, in the new wing, with vaulted and coffered ceiling, was painted with scenes from classical literature and poetry. The geometric floor covering recalls the ceiling pattern. Painted wall decoration is derived from Raphael's Vatican Loggie in the grotesque style. Von Klenze designed the gold and white furniture.
Show lessRead more
Details
- Title: The Dressing Room of King Ludwig I at the Munich Residence Palace
- Creator: Franz Xaver Nachtmann
- Creator Lifespan: 1799/1846
- Date Created: 1836
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and gouache and gold paint, pen and black ink, graphite on white wove paper
- Signed: Lower right: Nachtmann 1836
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Galerie Biederman, Munich
- Paper Support: White wove paper
- Exhibitions: New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.New York, NY, The Pierpont Morgan Library. From Romanticism to Realism: German Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1998.New York, NY, Frick Museum. An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections, 1992.Oneonta, New York, Hartwick College. 18th and 19th Century Watercolors of European Domestic Interiors, 1987, No. 20.New York, NY, The Pierpont Morgan Library. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, Part II, 1985, No. 67, [Illus.].
- Dimensions: Old frame H x W x D: 41.9 x 48.3 x 2.5 cm (16 1/2 in. x 19 in. x 1 in.)Sheet: 22.1 x 28.6 cm (8 11/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Bibliography: Stefan Muthesius, The Poetic Home, Designing the 19th-century Domestic Interior (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009), 67 (illus.).Gail S. Davidson et al., House Proud, Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2008),66, fig. 56; 90, pl. 18.Brigitte Langer, Pracht und Zeremoniell, Die Moebel der Residenz Munchen (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2003), 266, no. 108.Brigitte Langer, ed., Pracht und Zeremoniell - Die Mobel der Residenz Munchen, Munich, No. 108 (2002) (illus.).Charlotte Gere, An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections (New York: The Frick Collection, 1992), 50-51 (illus.).Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989), 191 (illus.).
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
