Cupid (Amor)

1878/1880

Max Klinger

Artist, German, 1857 - 1920

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.3 x 26.6 cm (5 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 34.6 x 53.1 cm (13 5/8 x 20 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.82.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Singer 1909, no. 122, State i/v (proof)

Associated Artworks

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Place (Ort)

Max Klinger

1880

Yearnings (Wünsche)

Max Klinger

1878

Anxieties (Ängste)

Max Klinger

1878

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carus Gallery, New York; private collection; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

1909

  • Singer, Hans Wolfgang. Max Klingers Radierungen, Stiche und Steindrucke. Berlin, 1909 (republished 1978 by Martin Gordon, New York).

1977

  • Varnedoe, J. Kirk T. with Elizabeth Streicher. Graphic Works of Max Klinger. New York, 1977: 80-81 (Postscript to A Glove).

1984

  • Carey, Frances and Antony Griffiths. The Print in Germany 1880-1933: The Age of Expressionism. London and New York, 1984: 44.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: op_ MK. VI_ / c. 1878 r 1880; lower center below image in graphite: No. 10. (erased) Beim Erwachen (on awakening); lower center below plate mark in graphite: No. 10 (written over X) Au Reveil (on awakening); lower left below plate mark in graphite: "Un gant" / eaux-fortes oeuvre VI.; upper right above image in graphite: No.; upper right above image lightly scratched in plate: X.

Wikidata ID

Q75396783

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