A Dead Oak Tree

c. 1830

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Artist, German, 1759 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 36.8 x 52.3 cm (14 1/2 x 20 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 37 x 52.5 cm (14 9/16 x 20 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.325

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Martens 1976, no. 269, State iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Kaspar Lempertz Sr. [1816-1898], Cologne (Lugt 1337). (Lutz Riester, Freiburg im Breisgau); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 18, 2002; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1920

  • Jentsch, Ernst. "Der Radierer Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1757 Berlin-1835 Dessau." Unpublished dissertation. Breslau, 1920: no. 206.

1976

  • Martens, Ulf. Der Zeichner und Radierer C. W. Kolbe. Berlin, 1976: no. 269, iv.

Inscriptions

above image, at top right: VI

Wikidata ID

Q76556629

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