A Design for the Town Gate at Sankt Simeon, Trier

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Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753)
A Design for the Town Gate at Sankt Simeon, Trier
signed and dated 'Balt: Neumann O[ber]baumeister(?) Augsburg 8 Ma 1746' and inscribed 'Littera..', 'Grundriss, Auftrag, und Profile fürs Stadthoor zu Trier, beÿ St Simeon', 'auftrag oder prospect', 'grundriss von dem statthoor', 'Profile oder...' and with a scale numbered '1' to '20'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey and pink wash, black ink framing lines, watermark Strasburg bend
419 x 472 mm.

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A design for the north city gate in Trier, situated next to the Porta Nigra, the famous Roman monument also called Sankt Simeon because it incorporated a small Romanesque church, demolished in 1804.
Balthasar Neumann is best known for his design of the Würzburg Residence with its famous staircase (finished 1744) decorated with frescoes by Giambattista Tiepolo (1750-53). He was also involved in several projects at the court of Kurfürst-Erzbischof Franz Georg von Schönborn (1722-56) in Trier, among them the decoration of the church of Sankt Paulinus and several fortifications in and around the city.

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