# Friedrich Wilhelm III's Palm Court [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLECHEN, Karl]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Paper over canvas, 64 x 56 cm ## Commentary Far away from the Frenchified classical grandeur of Frederick the Great, for whom the Sanssouci Palace was built in Potsdam, is the bourgeois apparatus of Frederick William III, seen in his "Gothic Moroccan" Palm Court on the on the Pfaueninsel \(Peacock Island, an island situated in the Havel river near the Berlin Wannsee\). Designed in an opulent late Regency style, this building is a reminder of the many marital and cultural links between Prussia and England. The Palm Court was unusually realistically recorded in Blechen's canvas commissioned in 1832 by the arch-conservative king as a gift for his daughter, the Czarina Charlotte. Her collection of German nineteenth-century art is mostly in The Hermitage, St. Petersburg. ## Related artworks - [Alpine Pass in Winter with Monks]() - [Bathers in Terni Park]() - [Building the Devil's Bridge]() - [Fishermen at the Gulf of Naples]() - [Galgenberg]() - [Gorge at Amalfi]() - [Grotto in the Gulf of Naples]() - [In the Palm House in Potsdam]() - [Rolling Mill]() - [Sanssouci Palace]() - [Scaffold in Storm]() - [Self-Portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()