Richard Menzel Posing in Eighteenth-Century Costume

1854

Adolph Menzel

Associated Names
Adolph Menzel

Artist, German, 1815 - 1905

The image shows a full-body sketch of a man facing left. His head is turned to the left in profile. His facial features are angular with prominent cheekbones. His hair is thinning on top, longer at the sides and back. He wears a loose-fitting tunic with billowy sleeves, knee-length pants, possibly breeches, and boots. He wears shoes with buckles. He appears to be holding an object with his hands positioned near his torso. The background is a plain, light-colored surface providing contrast to the dark lines of the sketch.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with stumping, heightened with yellow, on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of C.G. Boerner, LLC

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29.5 x 16.5 cm (11 5/8 x 6 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2005.105.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Schönfeld (not in Lugt). (C. G. Boerner, New York); gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 99.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Kat. 1351

Wikidata ID

Q64533358

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