Mädchen im Korsett (Girl in a Corset)

1895

Lovis Corinth

Associated Names
Lovis Corinth

Artist, German, 1858 - 1925

The image shows a person seated from the waist up, with their head tilted back, eyes closed. The facial features include a prominent chin and slightly parted lips, with wavy short hair. They wear a corset and a dark, vertically striped garment covering their legs. Holding two fans, the background is textured with dark shading on one side.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.5 × 25.6 cm (13 9/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 54.45 × 34.77 cm (21 7/16 × 13 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.98.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schwarz 1922, no. 11

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin, Germany); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., 2000; acquired 2002 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003.

Bibliography

1922

  • Schwarz, Karl. _Das graphische Werk von Lovis Corinth. _Berlin, Germany: Fritz Gurlitt, 1922, no. 11.

Inscriptions

upper left in image: LC 95; lower right in graphite: Lovis Corinth; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 7171

Wikidata ID

Q76347846

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