Gretchen Murdering Her Child, 1852

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 43.18 × 32.7 cm (17 × 12 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.272

Artists / Makers

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (artist) American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in pen and brown ink: E. Leutze, Christmas 1852

Provenance

Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Leutze, E.H.C.

Exhibition History

1972: The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 34, no. 241.