Half-Figure of an Old Woman with a Cap
c. 1535
Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545

Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal with green wash added by a later hand on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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