Adolph Menzel
1885
Artist, German, 1857 - 1891
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and graphite with stumping and scraped corrections, touched with yellow pastel, on tan wove paper, indented for transfer
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Merritt P. Dyke
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Dimensions
sheet: 29.1 x 21.8 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.41
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 22 June 1990, no. 984); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, no. 111.
Inscriptions
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
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64591912