The Artist's Wife Sewing

1753

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Associated Names
Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Artist, German, 1712 - 1775

The image features a bust portrait of a woman. She is seen in a three-quarter view, looking downwards with a tranquil expression. The woman has curly hair under a bonnet, and she wears a shawl, a blouse, and holds a piece of fabric. The background is textured with hatched lines.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12 x 9.5 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 12.3 x 9.5 cm (4 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2003.73.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wessely 1887, no. 105, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Royal Collection, Liechtenstein (cut from a full sheet of Liechtenstein album mount). (Lutz Riester, Freiburg); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1887

  • Wessely, Joseph Eduard. Georg Frederic Schmidt. Verzeichniss seiner Stiche und Radirungen. Hamburg, 1887.

Inscriptions

upper left in image: Schmidt fec. / ad vivum / 1753

Wikidata ID

Q76340853

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