An Infant Asleep in His Crib, 1848

Not on View

Medium

pastel on brown wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 13.9 x 21.8 cm (5 1/2 x 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Sharon Percy Rockefeller

Accession Number

2007.111.20

Artists / Makers

Adolph Menzel (artist) German, 1815 - 1905

Image Use

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Inscription

dated at lower left in pastel: 14. Octob:/1848

Provenance

Julius Aufseesser, Berlin, 1905. [1] H. Alagheband, Munich. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

[1] In 1926, Aufseeser published a book on his collection, Aus meinem Sammlerleben, which did not include any works by Menzel. Neither did the 1-2 November 1926 sale of his collection in Berlin.

Associated Names

Aufseesser, Julius
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 19, 34, 38, no. 101, under no. 102.

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1905: Tschudi, Hugo von. Adolph von Menzel: Abbildungen seiner Gemälde und Studien.... Munich, 1905: 168, no. 209.

1915: Wolf, Georg Jacob. Adolf von Menzel, der Maler dutschen Wesens. Munich, 1915: pl. 92.

1995: "Sehnsucht zur Kindheit" Kinderdarstellungen in der Romantik und ihre Vorläufer. Galerie Arnoldi-Livie. Munich, 1995: 68-69, no. 48 (reprod.).

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 14, 15, fig. 19.