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This and 52 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Architectural Prints.

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1920

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2016

2026

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Print, COUPE DE LA RETRAITE PRISE SUR LA LARGEURE DU BATIMENT

This is a Print. It was designed by Michael Hartwagner and François de Cuvilliés the younger and print maker: Monach and Joseph Kaltner and published by François de Cuvilliés the younger. It is dated 1771 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is engraving and etching on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered in plate center right: Hartwagner invent; et sculp: Monachy; lettered along lower border: C.P.S.C.M/ Invente par Francois de Cuvillies Fils Grave par Josephe Kaltner en 1771/ C.P.R

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, upper left corner: V; lettered upper center: Artis opus Pacemque animi, Pacemque Locorum/ Expetit et strepidis urbibus esse procul/ Ingenium munquam plebeja vescitur aura,/ Hanc fugiendo sui certius esse potest/ Grandia scripturus submit otia dulcis Evemi/ Sic animus semper, quo recreetur habet/ Qui secum blandas tenero trahit agmine usus/ Ommia fert secum, tristis et esse negat; numbered upper right: 5; lettered center: COUPE DE LA RETRAITE PRISE SUR LA LARGEURE DU BATIMENT

Cite this object as

Print, COUPE DE LA RETRAITE PRISE SUR LA LARGEURE DU BATIMENT; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger (German, 1731 - 1777), Michael Hartwagner (German, d. 1776); Print Maker: Joseph Kaltner (German, ca. 1758 - after 1824), Monach (German, active ca. 1770); Germany; engraving and etching on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-286-16

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