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Celebrating American art and artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Fishermen

c. 1850

Adolph Menzel

Associated Names

Adolph Menzel

Artist, German, 1815 - 1905

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite and black and gray wash, heightened with white gouache on brown wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection, 1937)
Dimensions

sheet: 26.4 × 31.8 cm (10 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

2015.143.48

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edward C. and Mary Walker; bequest in 1937 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art (inv. 37.36); acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

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Inscriptions

lower right in gray wash: A. Menzel

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