Maria Embracing the Drum Major

1925

Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and spit bite on wove paper, printed in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.9 × 20.9 cm (10 9/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 52 × 38.5 cm (20 1/2 × 15 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.5.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 205, State only

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Associated Artworks

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Maria Parying

Walter Gramatté

1925

Maria with the Sleeping Boy in her Arms Before a Mirror, Transformed by the Sound of the Drum Major

Walter Gramatté

1925

Wozzeck in Maria's Embrace

Walter Gramatté

1925

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 1, 1995; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

  • Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932, no. 205, only

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: Walter / Sp 25 (in reverse); below image, in graphite: 4) WalterGramatté / 25; below image, at bottom left, in graphite: „Wozzeck"

Wikidata ID

Q76561519

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