Landscape with a Large Building

Landscape with a Large Building

Franz von Hauslab the Younger

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Von Hauslab is a little known figure in the history of art. As private tutor to the future Emperor Franz Joseph I, a high-ranking military officer, and innovative cartographer, he traveled widely. The loose and expressive treatment of the landscape and sky in his watercolor contrast with the minute precision of another drawing of the same unidentified building in the collection (53.600.3637).

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.