Bernhard's Whooping Cough Face

mid to late 1820s

Gerhard Wilhelm von Reutern

Artist, Russian, 1794 - 1865

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.1 x 9.1 cm (6 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.196

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, by 1978). (Sven H. A. Bruntjen, Woodside, CA); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern (1794-1865) Drawings and Watercolours. Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1978, no. 19.

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 112-113, no. 45 (entry by Margaret Doyle).

Inscriptions

by artist, upper right in pen and gray ink: d 19ten N.U.M./u 22-; by artist, across bottom in pen and gray ink: Bernhards Keuchhustens Gesicht; by unknown hand, upper left verso in graphite: 4; by unknown hand, bottom center verso in graphite: 82

Wikidata ID

Q64571816

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