Young Woman with Child

1923

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image shows a line drawing of two figures: an adult and a child. The adult is seated upright with an angular face, pronounced cheekbones, and shoulder-length hair. She wears a long-sleeved top with patterns. The child sits in front, wearing a dress with puffed sleeves and a hat. The child looks forward, legs hanging down. The setting includes a chair and an object resembling a picture frame in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.9 x 24.7 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 34.8 x 29 cm (13 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.725

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 442, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) R 461 II. (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 14, 1975; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (I) 442, iii/iii

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; bottom center in graphite: Mädchen mit Kind III Zustand 23; bottom left by later hand in graphite: Sch II 467; bottom right by later hand in graphite: 62; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: II=Sch 461; K9229S; bottom right verso by later hand in graphite: 8886

Wikidata ID

Q76557773

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