Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
453030
label
View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
453030
contentType
drawing
title
View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
description
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.
date
1817
citation
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117247166
creators
453023
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
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.)
cul
Germany, 19th century
accession
2022.1
Source extras
tec
Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper
tombstone
View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, 1817. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German, 1794–1872). Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2022.1
collection
DR - German
inscriptions
inscription
Inscribed and dated at lower left: Leipzig 1817 M. July
inscription
stamped at lower right on verso in blue ink: mark of Carl Heumann collection (Lugt 2841a)
inscription
watermark: H * O S E R [unidentified]
didYouKnow
The landscape in this drawing is seen from the perspective of Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s family home in Leipzig.
citations
citation
<em>Deutsche Landscaftskunst, 1750–1850: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Sammlung Heumann, Chemnitz</em>. Exh. Cat. Breslau: Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste, 1933.
page_number
Mentioned no. 135
citation
<em>Zeichenkunst der deutschen Romantik</em>. Exh. Cat. Wiesbaden: Nassauisches Landesmusuem, 1937.
page_number
Mentioned: 30, no. 282
citation
Göpel, Erhard. “Deutsche Künstler zeichnen in Leipzig.” <em>Leipziger Jahrbuch </em>14 (1939).
page_number
Mentioned p. 134–36
citation
<em>Kunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Heumann, Chemnitz</em>. Stuttgart: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinetts, 1957.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 66, no. 320; Reproduced: pl. 18
citation
Göpel, Erhard. “Eine unbekannte Ansicht Leipzigs” <em>Neue Lepipziger Zeitung</em> 249, no. 6 (September 6, 1933).
page_number
reproduced
citation
Mehnert, Karl Hein. “Eine wiederentdeckte Stadtansicht: Zur Ausstellung Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld im Museum der bildenden Künste.” <em>Leipziger Blatter</em> 27 (Spring 1994).
page_number
Reproduced: p. 74; Mentioned: p. 75.
citation
<em>Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1794–1872</em>. Exh. Cat. Leipzig: Museum der Bildenden Künste, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned: 197–98, no. 27; Reproduced: p. 97
creditline
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 09:04:21.229000
sourceId
453030
dept
Drawings
coll
DR - German
med
Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper
creatorTags
male
thumbnail_url
image_url
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
e45b2c3520b85c41