Adolph Menzel Wearing a Top Hat, c. 1885

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Medium

etching with drypoint on chine collé

Dimensions

plate: 39.6 × 29.7 cm (15 9/16 × 11 11/16 in.)

sheet: 54.8 × 36.4 cm (21 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Christopher and Beverly With in memory of Karl and Gerda With

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs 1907, no. 13, IIIb

Accession Number

2020.167.14

Artists / Makers

Karl Stauffer-Bern (artist) German, 1857 - 1891

Otto Felsing (printer) German, 1854 - 1920

Amsler & Ruthardt (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in image: Menze. / ad. viv / Stauffer-Bern Nov 85; below plate: Karl Stauffer-Bern fecit; O Felsing, Berlin impr; Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin W.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Stauffer-Bern: Adolf Menzel (fast Lebensgrosser Kopf mit [not deciphered]), Lehrs 13.III.[not deciphered]

Provenance

(Christopher and Beverly With, Washington, D.C.); gift to NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul
With, Christopher

Bibliography

1907: Lehrs, Max. Karl Stauffer-Bern (1857-1891) ein Verzeichnis seiner Radierungen und Stiche, Dresden, 1907: no. 13 IIIb