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Architectural Drawing

1450–1500
Not on view
Perfectly proportioned, finely detailed, and executed with ease, everything about this drawing suggests a confident and experienced draftsman intimately familiar with the architectural vocabulary and design methods of the most sophisticated urban workshops of late fifteenth-century northern France. Though there is no evidence that the drawing served as a model for any existing building, it is similar to the west facade of the parish church of Saint-Maclou in Rouen designed in the 1430s and built in the 1480s.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Architectural Drawing
  • Date: 1450–1500
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk on vellum
  • Dimensions: Overall: 17 9/16 x 11 3/4 in. (44.6 x 29.8 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1968
  • Object Number: 68.49
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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