K. baierische Infanterie (Bavarian Infantrymen)

1816

Johann Adam Klein

Associated Names
Johann Adam Klein

Artist, German, 1792 - 1875

The image shows a group of soldiers in full military uniform. They are standing in different poses, such as with arms crossed, holding rifles, or sitting on a drum. The soldiers have defined facial features and are wearing large fur hats, military jackets, trousers, high boots, belts, backpacks, drum sticks, rifles, and swords. In the background, there are buildings with pitched roofs and a chimney emitting smoke.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching heightened with white on grey/green paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, gift in honor of Andrew Robison

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.7 x 17.5 cm (6 3/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 16 x 18.2 cm (6 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2010.16.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Jahn 1863, no. 172, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, Washington, DC); gift to NGA, 2010

Associated Names

Bibliography

1863

  • Jahn, C. Das Werk von Johann Adam Klein Maler und Kupferätzer zu München. Munich: Verlag der Montmorrilon'schen Kunsthandlung, 1863: no. 172, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: K. baierische Infanterie; lower right in plate: K. f. 1816; lower left in plate: aufgeschichte von J. A. Klein

Wikidata ID

Q76345989

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