The Artist's Wife Reading in Bed

1885/1890

Leopold von Kalckreuth

Associated Names
Leopold von Kalckreuth

Artist, German, 1855 - 1928

The artwork depicts a woman lying in bed, covered up to her shoulders with a white sheet. Her head is resting on a pillow, and she is turned to the side, reading a book held in her hands. Her facial features are softly rendered, and her hair is pulled back. She is wearing a dark long-sleeved garment. The colors used are muted, with shades of gray and white dominating the scene, and the background is indistinct.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anna Koenigs, daughter of the artist, Haarlem; by descent to her sister, Christine Gräfin Kalckreuth [b. 1898], Munich; by descent to Kornelia van Eyck-Koenigs, daughter of Anna Koenigs, Munich. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth Ausstellung: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Preussische Akademie der Künste zu Berlin. Berlin, 1929: fig. 13.

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 39, 288-289, no. 114 (entry by Peter Prange).

Bibliography

1967

  • Kalckreuth, Johannes. Wesen und Werk meines Vaters. Lebensbild des Malers Graf Leopold von Kalckreuth. Hamburg, 1967: 420, 321.

2010

  • Kunz , Armin. “German Drawings, Washington.” Review of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900.” In The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1,291 (October 2010): 701, color fig. 54.

  • Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 10, 11, fig. 14.

Inscriptions

verso at center left in graphite: farbig; at center: 48./61.

Wikidata ID

Q64592978

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