Foliage with Reeds

c.1810

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Associated Names
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Artist, German, 1759 - 1835

The image features large, deeply veined and detailed leaves in black and white. The leaves dominate the central and lower foreground, with taller stems and slender leaves reaching towards the upper half. In the upper right, a cluster of smaller leaves adds depth to the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29 × 23.8 cm (11 7/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 45.9 × 35.5 cm (18 1/16 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.327

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Martens 1976, no. 75, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(F. Dörling Auktionen, Hamburg, Auction 173, December 1, 1997, lot 216); (via Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1976

  • Martens, Ulf. Der Zeichner und Radierer C. W. Kolbe. Berlin, 1976: no. 75, ii/ii

Wikidata ID

Q76556634

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