# Concert Room of Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam, Germany

- By: Eduard Gaertner (1801 – 1877)
- Date: 1852
- Medium: Brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite, gum arabic on white wove paper
- Classification: Interior views
- Dimensions: Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.)
- Culture: Germany
- Credit line: Thaw Collection
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/229951)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b9c7d61fa5e0f41a6ad391ca65ca4e62.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The palace of Sanssouci, commissioned by Frederick the Great in 1745, was intended as a summer residence - a pleasure palace, without care, as its name connotes. The music room is an explosion of gilded boiserie, designed by Johann August Nahl, with mirrors alternating with painted panels by Antoine Pesne illustrating scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses.