Self-Portrait as a Young Woman
c. 1900
Artist, German, 1867 - 1945
Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 46.8 x 36.5 cm (18 7/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1995.56.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Nagel 1972, no. 166
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Probably Ernst Heinrich, prince of Saxony; (C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Robert and Chris Petteys, Sterling, Colorado, acquired 1982; gift to NGA, 1995.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992, no. 33, as Self-Portrait in Profile Facing Right.
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 118, as Self-Portrait.
2001
A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 1.
2019
The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1972
Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.
1982
Petteys, Chris. Dictionary of Women Artists, an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. Boston, 1982: repro. as frontispiece.
1988
Fecht, Tom. Käthe Kollwitz: Das Farbige Werk. West Berlin, 1987: no. 11, repro. 7 (2nd ed. translated. by A.S. Wensinger and R.H. Wood, New York, 1988: no. 11, repro. 7 and cover).
1993
Timm, Werner. Käthe Kollwitz, Meisterwerke. Munich, 1993: no. 12, repro. section 1.
1994
Woman's Art Journal 15/1 (1994): repro. cover.
2001
A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 1.
2010
Kunz , Armin. “German Drawings, Washington.” Review of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900.” In The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1,291 (October 2010): 702.
Inscriptions
lower right in black chalk or pastel: Kollwitz
Watermarks
possible "ED & Cie" in cartouche at lower edge [Emile Desloye Plancher-Bas]
Wikidata ID
Q64591962