Profile of a Man
after 1865
Artist, American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on the reverse of a hotel menu
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)
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Dimensions
sheet: 16.99 × 12.86 cm (6 11/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.284
Artwork history & notes
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
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. 35, no. 248.
Inscriptions
upper center in graphite: 75 / 12 / 87 1/2; lower center in graphite: 25 / 160 / 1500 / 25 / 4000; left verso vertically in pen and red ink by unknown hand: Vermicelli / Butter Sauce / Wine to; right verso vertically in pen and red ink by unknown hand: Broiled Chickens M D Hotel / Fried Sage in batter / Veal Kidney Sauté au [not deciphered] / Breast Lamb sauce [not deciphered]
Wikidata ID
Q64559343