A Widely Expanding Oak Tree

1825/1830

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Artist, German, 1759 - 1835

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23 x 34.8 cm (9 1/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 24.9 x 36.6 cm (9 13/16 x 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.324

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Martens 1976, no. 197


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lutz Riester, Freiburg im Breisgau); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 9, 2003; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1920

  • Jentsch, Ernst. "Der Radierer Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1757 Berlin-1835 Dessau." Unpublished dissertation. Breslau, 1920: no. 286.

1976

  • Martens, Ulf. Der Zeichner und Radierer C. W. Kolbe. Berlin, 1976: no. 197.

Wikidata ID

Q76556628


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