Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and gray wash, heightened with white chalk, on gray laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 46.4 x 31.4 cm (18 1/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1946.11.92
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Catalogue Raisonné
Nagel 1972, no. 215
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1946 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1959
Käthe Kollwitz, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to ten venues (Time, Inc., New York, NY; Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK; Pensacola Art Center, Pensacola, FL; The J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL; St. Paul's School, Concord, NH; Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA; Tacoma Art League, Tacoma, WA; and Fine Arts Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA), 1959-1960, no cat.
1992
Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 62, reproduced p. 35.
Bibliography
1959
Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 28.
1972
Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.
Inscriptions
lower right in white chalk: Kathe Kollwitz 1906
Wikidata ID
Q64591947