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The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam, 1834. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 135 × 126 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
- Artist
- Carl Blechen (German, 1798–1840)
- Date
- 1834
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 135 × 126 cm (52 1/2 × 50 in.); Framed: 155 × 145.5 cm (61 × 57 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection; L.L. and A.S. Coburn and Alexander A. McKay endowments; through prior gift of William Wood Prince; through prior acquisitions of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Endowment
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1798–1840
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.

