A Dead Oak Tree, c. 1830

Not on View

series Title

Nachgelassene Radierungen (Plate 6)

Medium

etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Martens 1976, no. 269, State iv

Accession Number

2012.92.325

Artists / Makers

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (artist) German, 1759 - 1835

Image Use

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Inscription

above image, at top right: VI

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

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Lempertz, Heinrich Kaspar Sr
Riester, Lutz

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 Unpublished dissertation.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.