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Johann Heinrich MÜNTZ (Mulhouse 1727-Kassel 1...

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Walkers on a country road Shepherds leading their flock Pair of drawings, pen and grey ink, grey wash. Signed and dated lower right J. H. Müntz 1769. 23,5 x 29,5 cm Painter and architect, Müntz is considered one of the pioneers of the neo-Gothic style. After two years of study in Rome, where he devoted himself to copying antiques, he worked in England, notably for Horace Walpole, and then at Kew Gardens, where he designed a famous folly called the Gothic Cathedral, now destroyed. He then worked in Holland and Poland. As a painter, he left mainly landscapes of Italy. The pair