The Artist's Wife Reading in Bed
1885/1890
Artist, German, 1855 - 1928
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper, laid down
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Merritt P. Dyke
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Dimensions
sheet: 22.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.107
Artwork history & notes
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
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
Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 10, 11, fig. 14.
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.
Inscriptions
verso at center left in graphite: farbig; at center: 48./61.
Wikidata ID
Q64592978