Christian Schuchardt was custodian of the Grand-Ducal collection of drawings and of Goethe's collection. He wrote the 3-part Goethe's Kunstsammlungen (1848), a monumental biography of Cranach (1851–1871) and described the best-known work of Georg Wilhelm Müller in Die Zeichnungen von Asmus Jacob Carstens in der Grossherzoglichen Kunstsammlung zu Weimar (1863 Weimar). Vgl. [2]
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The gallery at the Großen Jägerhaus attempted to reconstruct the early phase of Weimar Classicism on the basis of a surviving inventory made by Johann Heinrich Meyer in 1824 in the Goethes Bildergalerie exhibition in 2002 [1].
