Emma Rasmussen

1904

Anders Zorn

Associated Names
Anders Zorn

Artist, Swedish, 1860 - 1920

The image depicts a seated woman in a full upper body portrait. She is leaning forward with one hand under her chin. Her features include delicate eyes, a small nose, slightly parted lips, and curly hair falling around her shoulders. She wears a dress with ruffled sleeves. The background features abstract patterns and crosshatching. The artwork style appears to be etched or engraved with fine lines defining form and texture.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on Van der Ley laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.2 x 15.1 cm (7 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.8 x 25.7 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.98.216

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Asplund 1920, no. 183

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 26, 1974; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1920

  • Asplund, Karl. Zorn's Engraved Work: Descriptive Catalogue. English ed. 2 vols. Stockholm: A.-B.H.Buckowskis Konsthandel, 1920.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Zorn 1904; lower right in graphite: A Zorn; by later hand, lower left in graphite: LD182 onr? / A183" Miss Rassmussen MC 37909; by later hand, lower right in graphite: JK / MFM; verso: none

Markings

"JK" [Jacob Kainen collector's stamp] verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 4737).

Watermarks

[Fortune figure] / Van der Ley

Wikidata ID

Q76335538

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