From an 1828 proposal "On the Purpose of the Berlin Gallery" (Über die Aufgabe der Berliner Galerie) written by Waagen and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Geismeier's source for this quotation is

First delight, then instruct (original German: erst erfreuen, dann belehren).

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