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Kandt, Kevin E.: Some notes on two allegorical drawings attributed to Andreas Schlüter the Younger from the Jacob Kabrun collection in the National Museum of Gdańsk
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Kevin
E. Kandt
Fig. 16. Franęois Boucher, Brunette Odalisque (1745), Louvre, Paris
Some very slight differences do exist between the two drawing, such as the
somewhat dry, fussy, and over-complicated treatment of the drapery on the
female personification of Time in contrast to the cleaner, relaxed, more deci-
sive pen-strokes employed for the Astronomy allegory, which might suggest
a specific artistic intent or perhaps even the hand of a workshop assistant^),
although when taken as a whole, the style and execution of the Gdańsk draw-
ings does compare well to the few examples which are known of Schluter’s
skill as a draftsman. Until today, only one or two drawings could be attrib-
uted with any certainty to the artist and these are the architectural drawings
for the Parochial Church Tower (1703-04) and a Design for a Tower above the
Erasmus-Chapel of the Berlin Schloss (1706).60 (figs. 18-19) Yet a little-known
drawing of the Villa von Kameke in Berlin (1711), which was identified and
published, has been forwarded as another convincing example of an auto-
graph drawing by Schluter.61 (fig. 20) In this drawing, the incomparable
60 The Miinzturm drawing is part of archival documentation for the project now in the
Geheimes Staatsarchiv-Preussische Kulturbesitz in Berlin which allowed for its more secure
dating and reliable identification of its authorship. The Parochial Church drawing is preserved
in the Sachsische Landes- und Universitatsbibliothek, Dresden. See: Ladendorf, Andreas
Schluter..., p. 40-46; Goerd Peschken, Das konigliche Schlofizu Berlin - Bd. II: DieBaugeschichte
von 1701 bis 1706, Munich and Berlin 1998, p. 205-210; Hinterkeuser, Eine Zeichnung...,
p. 109-114.
61 See the catalogue entry in: Sophie Charlotte und Ihre Schlofi, Ein Musenhofdes Barocks
in Brandenburg-Preufien, exhibition catalogue, Generalverwaltung der Stiftung Preufiische
Schlofier und Garten Berlin-Brandenburg (ed.), Munich-London-New York 1999, p. 299-
300; Preufien 1701 - Eine europaische Geschichte, exhibition catalogue, Deutsche Historisches
Museum /Stiftung Preufiische Schlosser und Garten, Berlin-Brandenburg (eds.), Berlin 2001,
180
E. Kandt
Fig. 16. Franęois Boucher, Brunette Odalisque (1745), Louvre, Paris
Some very slight differences do exist between the two drawing, such as the
somewhat dry, fussy, and over-complicated treatment of the drapery on the
female personification of Time in contrast to the cleaner, relaxed, more deci-
sive pen-strokes employed for the Astronomy allegory, which might suggest
a specific artistic intent or perhaps even the hand of a workshop assistant^),
although when taken as a whole, the style and execution of the Gdańsk draw-
ings does compare well to the few examples which are known of Schluter’s
skill as a draftsman. Until today, only one or two drawings could be attrib-
uted with any certainty to the artist and these are the architectural drawings
for the Parochial Church Tower (1703-04) and a Design for a Tower above the
Erasmus-Chapel of the Berlin Schloss (1706).60 (figs. 18-19) Yet a little-known
drawing of the Villa von Kameke in Berlin (1711), which was identified and
published, has been forwarded as another convincing example of an auto-
graph drawing by Schluter.61 (fig. 20) In this drawing, the incomparable
60 The Miinzturm drawing is part of archival documentation for the project now in the
Geheimes Staatsarchiv-Preussische Kulturbesitz in Berlin which allowed for its more secure
dating and reliable identification of its authorship. The Parochial Church drawing is preserved
in the Sachsische Landes- und Universitatsbibliothek, Dresden. See: Ladendorf, Andreas
Schluter..., p. 40-46; Goerd Peschken, Das konigliche Schlofizu Berlin - Bd. II: DieBaugeschichte
von 1701 bis 1706, Munich and Berlin 1998, p. 205-210; Hinterkeuser, Eine Zeichnung...,
p. 109-114.
61 See the catalogue entry in: Sophie Charlotte und Ihre Schlofi, Ein Musenhofdes Barocks
in Brandenburg-Preufien, exhibition catalogue, Generalverwaltung der Stiftung Preufiische
Schlofier und Garten Berlin-Brandenburg (ed.), Munich-London-New York 1999, p. 299-
300; Preufien 1701 - Eine europaische Geschichte, exhibition catalogue, Deutsche Historisches
Museum /Stiftung Preufiische Schlosser und Garten, Berlin-Brandenburg (eds.), Berlin 2001,
180