The Artist's Wife with a Book, 1752

Not on View

Medium

black, red, yellow, and blue chalks, with stumping, on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 21.2 x 17.4 cm (8 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.158

Artists / Makers

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (artist) German, 1712 - 1775

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated at top left in black ink: G. F. Schmidt/1761

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, Paris). (sale, Galerie am Neumarkt, Zurich, 3 November 1972, no. 214). (sale, Arno Winterberg, Heidelberg, 4 May 1979, no. 856). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie am Neumarkt
Prouté, S.A., Paul
Stiftung Ratjen
Winterberg, Arno

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 30, 38, no. 28.

Bibliography

1970: Galerie Paul Prouté, S.A. Dessins originaux anciens et modernes....(Catalogue "Uzès"). Paris, 1970: 14, no. 34.