Balthasar Wigand (Vienna 1771-1846 Felixdorf)
Balthasar Wigand (Vienna 1771-1846 Felixdorf)

A trompe-l'oeil with seventeen drawings of Viennese monuments

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Balthasar Wigand (Vienna 1771-1846 Felixdorf)
A trompe-l'oeil with seventeen drawings of Viennese monuments
signed 'wigand' and inscribed and dated 'Fäden nur zu seinem lei chentuche sind die Stunden die der Mensch verlebt./MDCCCXXXII.' [The hours that men live are like the threads to their shrouds]
pen and brown ink, bodycolor heightened with white on blue paper
10¾ x 17 7/8 in. (272 x 380 mm.)

Lot Essay

The views, in a clockwise spiral from the upper left, are: View of Vienna from Schönbrunn (or possibly the Belvedere) with the Church of Saint Stephen and Saint Charles (Karlskirche) and the Church of Saint Stefan; The Klosterneuburg; Wilburg bei Baden; Unidentified; Fortifications around Vienna, possibly the Kärntnertor; Possibly the Wilburg bei Baden; Possibly the Altes Theater at the Jägerzeile (today the Praterstrasse); Possibly vineyards around Vienna; Panorama-building in the Prater; Stubenbastei at the Wienfluss with the Church of Maria am Gestade; The Burgtor on the Heldenplatz; Unidentified; The Church of Saint Stephen and Saint Charles (Karlskirche); The Feuerwerkplatz in the Prater; Unidentified; and The Theseustempel in the Volksgarten.

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