Praying Monk

1826

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Artist, German, 1789 - 1869

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with drypoint on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.3 x 7.6 cm (4 7/16 x 3 in.)
    sheet: 16.2 x 11.2 cm (6 3/8 x 4 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.19.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagler, Vol. p, no. 548

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Emanuel von Baeyer, London); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 548

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: FO (in monogram); by later hand, lower center in graphite: An Etching by F. Overbeck himself-

Wikidata ID

Q76346144

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