The Artist's Wife Reading in Bed, 1885/1890

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 22.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Merritt P. Dyke

Accession Number

2007.111.107

Artists / Makers

Leopold von Kalckreuth (artist) German, 1855 - 1928

Image Use

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Inscription

verso at center left in graphite: farbig; at center: 48./61.

Provenance

Anna Koenigs, daughter of the artist, Haarlem; by descent to her sister, Christine Gräfin Kalckreuth [b. 1898], Munich; by descent to Kornelia van Eyck-Koenigs, daughter of Anna Koenigs, Munich. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Eyck-Koenigs, Kornelia van
Kalckreuth, Christine, Gräfin
Koenigs, Anne
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1929: Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth Ausstellung: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Preussische Akademie der Künste zu Berlin. Berlin, 1929: fig. 13.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 39, 288-289, no. 114 (entry by Peter Prange).

Bibliography

1967: Kalckreuth, Johannes. Wesen und Werk meines Vaters. Lebensbild des Malers Graf Leopold von Kalckreuth. Hamburg, 1967: 420, 321.

2010: Kunz , Armin. “German Drawings, Washington.” Review of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900.” In The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1,291 (October 2010): 701, color fig. 54.

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 10, 11, fig. 14.