Ground plan in art: paintings, drawings and prints

Houses of the Future Leningrad: Pilot's House, Kazimir Malevitch

Houses of the Future Leningrad: Pilot's House, 1924.

Houses of the Future Leningrad: Pilot's House (museum title)

Kazimir Malevitch (Russian), pencil on paper

Museum of Modern Art, United States

Yellow Plane in Dissolution, Kazimir Malevitch

Yellow Plane in Dissolution, 1917–1918.

Verdwijnend geel vlak (museum title)

Kazimir Malevitch (Russian), oil on canvas

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands

Design for a stove and a fireplace, Stanisław Wyspiański

Design for a stove and a fireplace, c. 1904–1905.

Projekt pieca i kominka (museum title)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish), pencil and colored pencil on paper

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Buildings among Trees, Field Strips in the Foreground

Rakennuksia puiden keskellä, etualla peltosarkoja (museum title)

Maria Wiik (Finnish), watercolor

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

The Construction of Copenhagen´s Dock in the Reign of Christian VI, Nicolai Abildgaard

The Construction of Copenhagen´s Dock in the Reign of Christian VI, 1786–1787.

Dokken anlægges under Christian VI (museum title)

Nicolai Abildgaard (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Composition: Light Color Planes with Grey Lines, Piet Mondrian

Composition: Light Color Planes with Grey Lines, 1919.

Composition: Light Color Planes with Grey Lines (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands

Composition with color planes and gray lines 3, Piet Mondrian

Composition with color planes and gray lines 3, 1918.

Composition with color planes and gray lines 3 (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Private collection

Composition with Color Planes and Gray Lines, Piet Mondrian

Composition with Color Planes and Gray Lines, 1916.

Composition with Color Planes and Gray Lines (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Private collection

Composition with color planes: façade, Piet Mondrian

Composition with color planes: façade, 1914.

Composition with color planes: façade (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Private collection

Overall Plan of the Central Vault of Tampere Cathedral with Drafts of the Wing Motif in the Centre and in One Corner, Not the Final Design

Tampereen tuomiokirkon keskiholvin kokonaisplaani ja… (museum title)

Hugo Simberg (Finnish), pencil on tracing paper

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

Twelve Spaces with Planes, Angular Bands, and Paved with Circles, Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Twelve Spaces with Planes, Angular Bands, and Paved with Circles, 1939.

Douze Espaces à plans, bandes angulaires et pavés de cercles (museum title)

Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Swiss), oil on canvas

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Christiania in 1686, c. 1875.

Christiania anno 1686 (museum title)

Adolph Tidemand (Norwegian), pen on paper

National Museum of Norway

Landscape on the Schinkel with Cows in the Foreground, Rik Wouters

Landscape on the Schinkel with Cows in the Foreground, 1915.

Landschap aan de Schinkel met koeien op de voorgrond (museum title)

Rik Wouters (Belgian), black chalk and watercolor on paper

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Double Portrait, 1754.

Dubbelporträtt (museum title)

Alexandre Roslin (Swedish), oil on canvas

Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray, Piet Mondrian

Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray, 1921.

Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and… (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Dallas Museum of Art, United States

Composition 7: Light Color Planes with Grey Contours, Piet Mondrian

Composition 7: Light Color Planes with Grey Contours, 1919.

Composition 7: Light Color Planes with Grey Contours (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore, Nicolai Abildgaard

Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore, 1781.

Frederik II bygger Kronborg (museum title)

Nicolai Abildgaard (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Architectural motif with tree in foreground, Johan Christian Dahl

Architectural motif with tree in foreground, 1843.

Arkitekturmotiv med tre i forgrunnen (museum title)

Johan Christian Dahl (Norwegian), black chalk on paper

National Museum of Norway

Male figure; floor plan, Adolph Tidemand

Male figure; floor plan, c. 1865–1872.

Mannsfigur; grunnplan (museum title)

Adolph Tidemand (Norwegian), pencil on paper

National Museum of Norway

A charlatan extracting a tooth from a patient's mouth, figure in the foreground vomiting; folio 68 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B", Francisco de Goya

A charlatan extracting a tooth from a patient's mouth, figure in the foreground vomiting; folio 68 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B", 1796–1798.

A charlatan extracting a tooth from a patient's mouth… (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish), brush, black ink wash and scraper

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

View and Plan of Toledo, 1610–1614.

Vue et plan de Tolède (museum title)

Le Greco (Spanish), oil on canvas

El Greco Museum, Spain

First Proposed Decoration of the Walls in the Lower Hall of the National Museum, Stockholm, Carl Larsson

First Proposed Decoration of the Walls in the Lower Hall of the National Museum, Stockholm, 1913.

Första förslaget till fresker i NM:s nedre trapphall (museum title)

Carl Larsson (Swedish), pen drawing with watercolour

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo, Francisco de Goya

Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo, 1819.

Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish), oil on canvas

Cleveland Museum of Art, United States

A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall. Sunrise, Jens Juel

A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall. Sunrise, 1790.

Den opgående sol i en bjergrig egn, i forgrunden et vandfald (museum title)

Jens Juel (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Composition avec grand plan rouge, jaune, noir, gris et bleu, Piet Mondrian

Composition avec grand plan rouge, jaune, noir, gris et bleu, 1921.

Composition avec grand plan rouge, jaune, noir, gris et bleu (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands

The plan of the Stock Exchange is presented to Christian IV in the audience room at Rosenborg, Wilhelm Marstrand

The plan of the Stock Exchange is presented to Christian IV in the audience room at Rosenborg, 1860.

Planen til Børsen forevises Chr. IV i audienssalen på… (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), pencil, brush and Indian ink

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore, 1781–1782.

Frederik II bygger Kronborg (museum title)

Nicolai Abildgaard (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Architect, Professor F. Meldahl sitting, Peder Severin Krøyer

Architect, Professor F. Meldahl sitting, 1882.

Arkitekt, Professor F. Meldahl, siddende (museum title)

Peder Severin Krøyer (Danish), oil on canvas

Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark

Nude woman lying on her stomach, study of the pose of the foreground figure for the composition "Treasures of Sesame", Stanisław Wyspiański

Nude woman lying on her stomach, study of the pose of the foreground figure for the composition "Treasures of Sesame", 1897.

Akt kobiety leżącej na brzuchu, studium pozy… (museum title)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish), colored pencil on paper

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Scale Sketch of the Division of a Window Frame of Tampere Cathedral, for the Stained-Glass Window The Tree of Life

Tampereen tuomiokirkon ikkunan puitteiden jäsentelyluonnos… (museum title)

Hugo Simberg (Finnish), watercolor on tracing paper

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

Ground Floor Plan for Torre Quatro Venti, Elihu Vedder

Ground Floor Plan for Torre Quatro Venti, c. 1905.

Ground Floor Plan for Torre Quatro Venti (museum title)

Elihu Vedder (American), plume, encre et crayon de couleur sur papier

National Gallery of Art, United States

Design for an open-air theatre (project for the Wawel Acropolis), Stanisław Wyspiański

Design for an open-air theatre (project for the Wawel Acropolis), 1905.

Projekt teatru na wolnym powietrzu (projekt dla Wawel… (museum title)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish), pencil on paper

National Museum in Kraków, Poland

Design for a chair for the Żeleński family, Stanisław Wyspiański

Design for a chair for the Żeleński family, 1904.

Projekt krzesła dla Żeleńskich (museum title)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish), pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper

National Museum in Kraków, Poland

Handles and Hinges for a Two-way-opening Door, Leonardo da Vinci

Handles and Hinges for a Two-way-opening Door, 1497.

Handles and Hinges for a Two-way-opening Door (museum title)

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)

Bibliothèque nationale d'Espagne, Spain

Två skådespelare. Den ene bugar sig i förgrunden, den andre står i bakgrunden

Två skådespelare. Den ene bugar sig i förgrunden, den andre… (museum title)

Antoine Watteau (French), red chalk on paper

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Sorry Scheme, Elihu Vedder

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Sorry Scheme, 1883–1884.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Sorry Scheme (museum title)

Elihu Vedder (American), craie, crayon, encre et aquarelle sur papier

Smithsonian American Art Museum, United States

Composition with Color Planes 5, Piet Mondrian

Composition with Color Planes 5, 1917.

Composition with Color Planes 5 (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Museum of Modern Art, United States

Composition in oval with color panes 2, Piet Mondrian

Composition in oval with color panes 2, 1914.

Composition in oval with color panes 2 (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands

View of Meiringen, the Pension Flux-Ruoff in the foreground, Adolph Tidemand

View of Meiringen, the Pension Flux-Ruoff in the foreground, 1864.

Fra Meiringen, Pension Flux-Ruoff i forgrunnen (museum title)

Adolph Tidemand (Norwegian), pencil on paper

National Museum of Norway

Ornamented design for a ceiling

Ornamenteret udkast til et loft (museum title)

Nicolai Abildgaard (Danish), pencil, pen, brown and black ink

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

White Planes in Dissolution, Kazimir Malevitch

White Planes in Dissolution, 1917–1918.

Verdwijnende witte vlakken (museum title)

Kazimir Malevitch (Russian), oil on canvas

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands

François Tronchin, 1757.

François Tronchin (museum title)

Jean-Étienne Liotard (Swiss), pastel on parchment

Cleveland Museum of Art, United States

The Entrance, Dover Harbour, 1918 : in the foreground are the harbour protection nets against enemy submarines, John Lavery

The Entrance, Dover Harbour, 1918 : in the foreground are the harbour protection nets against enemy submarines, 1918.

The Entrance, Dover Harbour, 1918 : in the foreground are… (museum title)

John Lavery (Irish), oil on canvas

Imperial War Museum, United Kingdom

Composition with large red plane, bluish gray, yellow, black, and blue, Piet Mondrian

Composition with large red plane, bluish gray, yellow, black, and blue, 1922.

Composition with large red plane, bluish gray, yellow… (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Private collection

Two Profiles (Marianne Preindlsberger in front), Helene Schjerfbeck

Two Profiles (Marianne Preindlsberger in front), 1881.

Kaksi naisprofiilia (etualalla Marianne Preindelsberger) (museum title)

Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish), oil on wood

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

Pencil sketch for the front, Wilhelm Marstrand

Pencil sketch for the front, 1860.

Blyantsskitse til forsiden (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), pencil

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Composition with color planes 4, Piet Mondrian

Composition with color planes 4, 1917.

Composition with color planes 4 (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Private collection

Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1, Piet Mondrian

Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1, 1914.

Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1 (museum title)

Piet Mondrian (Dutch), oil on canvas

Museum of Modern Art, United States

Tracing of the polychrome decoration of the Church of the Holy Cross in Kraków, Stanisław Wyspiański

Tracing of the polychrome decoration of the Church of the Holy Cross in Kraków, 1897.

Przerys polichromii kościoła św. Krzyża w Krakowie (museum title)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish), pencil and watercolor on paper

National Museum in Kraków, Poland

Cross Vault beside the Organ Gallery, Sketch for the Paintings of Tampere Cathedral

Urkulehterin sivulla oleva ristiholvi, luonnos Tampereen… (museum title)

Hugo Simberg (Finnish), pencil on paper

Finnish National Gallery, Finland