Currently not on view
West end of Parthenon,
ca. 1834
Leo von Klenze, German, 1784–1864
x1946-100
The architect and theoretician Leo von Klenze was the leading proponent of Greek revival architecture in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century. Appointed court architect and director of building by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1816, Klenze established Munich as a city of architectural splendor. In 1834, following the revolution that won Greece independence from centuries of Ottoman rule, Klenze was sent to Athens to inspect plans for a Hellenistic-inspired palace for the newly installed King Otto I. This meticulous watercolor of the Parthenon presumably dates from that period, when Klenze also supervised the preservation of classical monuments and the removal of Turkish fortifications and mosques that had been added to the Acropolis.
Information
Title
West end of Parthenon
Dates
ca. 1834
Maker
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
45.3 x 61.4 cm (17 13/16 x 24 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
Object Number
x1946-100
Place Depicted
Greece, Athens, Parthenon
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Wife of von Klenze;
Mrs. Arkwright Doppler.
purchase of the Princeton University Art Museum
Mrs. Arkwright Doppler.
purchase of the Princeton University Art Museum
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 6, no. 1/2 (1947): p. 7., p. 8
- Richard Stillwell, "The Parthenon in 1834", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 19, no. 1 (1960): p. 93-97., fig. 1, p. 94 (illus.)
- Maija Gervic, Leo fon Klence i Novyj Ėrmitaž (Leo von Klenze and the New Hermitage): v kontekste evropejskogo muzejnogo stroitel'stva = Leo von Klenze, 1784-1864, (Sankt-Peterburg: ARS, 2003)., p. 36, fig. 17
