Profile of a Man, after 1865

Not on View

Medium

graphite on the reverse of a hotel menu

Dimensions

sheet: 16.99 × 12.86 cm (6 11/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.284

Artists / Makers

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (artist) American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in graphite: 75 / 12 / 87 1/2; lower center in graphite: 25 / 160 / 1500 / 25 / 4000; left verso vertically in pen and red ink by unknown hand: Vermicelli / Butter Sauce / Wine to; right verso vertically in pen and red ink by unknown hand: Broiled Chickens M D Hotel / Fried Sage in batter / Veal Kidney Sauté au [not deciphered] / Breast Lamb sauce [not deciphered]

Provenance

Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Leutze, E.H.C.

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 35, no. 248.