Sanssouci Picture Gallery

The Picture Gallery (German: Bildergalerie) in the Sanssouci Park of Potsdam was built in 1755–64 during the reign of Frederick II of Prussia under the supervision of Johann Gottfried Büring.

[1] The Picture Gallery is situated east of the palace and is the oldest extant museum built for a ruler in Germany.

In his youth, he preferred the contemporary French art of the Rococo, and the walls of his rooms in Sanssouci were adorned with paintings of his favorite artist Antoine Watteau.

Some of the works exhibited are Caravaggio's Increduility of St Thomas,[1] Anthony van Dycks Pentecost, and Four Evangelists and Saint Hieronymus from the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens.

Adjacent to the long gallery hall is the similarly richly arranged cabinet, where the paintings of smaller format are exhibited.

Christ by Alfred Lange from 1899 in the church of Saint Mary, Szprotawa as the only copy of Rafael Santi's lost painting from the Sanssouci gallery after the Second World War
Interior of the Picture Gallery, looking east from the entrance