Half-Figure of an Old Woman with a Cap

c. 1535

Hans Baldung Grien

Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal with green wash added by a later hand on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Edith G. Rosenwald

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 39.6 x 23.6 cm (15 9/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
    support: 39.6 x 24.9 cm (15 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.10.6


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald [1893-1988], Jenkintown, PA; gift 1978 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1940

  • Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1940, no. 50, repro.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 50-51, repro.

1950

  • Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no.31, repro.

1955

  • Master Drawings, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1960

  • Old Master Drawings, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1960, no. 18, repro.

1961

  • Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 63, repro.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 24-25.

1981

  • Hans Baldung Grien: Prints & Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1981, no. 89, repro.

2018

  • Dürer e il Rinascimento Tedesco, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2018.

2019

  • Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, no. 251.

  • Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1943

  • Mongan, Elizabeth. Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1943: 51, repro.

1947

  • Tietze 1947, 36.

Inscriptions

upper left in monogram: HGB

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64572917


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