Two Peasant Girls

c. 1900

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Associated Names
Paula Modersohn-Becker

Artist, German, 1876 - 1907

The image shows a woman and a child sitting on the grass. The woman is facing the child, with her hands on her lap. She has medium-length hair and is wearing a patterned dress with a necklace. The child is seated to the left, with a slight downward head tilt. Also wearing a patterned dress, the child has hands clasped together in front of the chest. The background includes tall grasses and thin trees with sparse leaves.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint and roulette on heavy wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14 × 9.8 cm (5 1/2 × 3 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 33.4 × 26.8 cm (13 1/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.378

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pauli 1919, no. 7, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Helen Serger La Boetie, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 20, 1979; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1919

  • Pauli, Gustav. Paula Modersohn-Becker. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919: no. 7, only

Inscriptions

below image, in graphite: I. P. Modersohn-Becker / O. Modersohn; on versom in graphite, by various later hands: Nr 1081; 22.50; 6

Wikidata ID

Q76556768

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