Adolph Menzel, 1885

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Medium

charcoal and graphite with stumping and scraped corrections, touched with yellow pastel, on tan wove paper, indented for transfer

Dimensions

sheet: 29.1 x 21.8 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Merritt P. Dyke

Accession Number

2007.111.41

Artists / Makers

Karl Stauffer-Bern (artist) German, 1857 - 1891

Image Use

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Inscription

signed, dated, and dedicated at lower right in graphite: Herrn H. Paechter/freundschaftl. von/Stauffer Bern/85.; at lower center: gez. Mittwoch 11 Nov. 11-1 Uhr im Atelier/von A. Menzel

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 22 June 1990, no. 984); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 111.