Gretchen Murdering Her Child

1852

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Associated Names
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Artist, American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868

This is a drawing of a forest scene with a figure bathing in a pond. The drawing features light pen and ink outlines depicting a central figure immersed in water, surrounded by tall grasses and trees in a natural setting. Additional figures or mythical creatures are outlined in the background among the trees. The upper portion of the drawing is largely bare, with a light sketch of a face and lines.

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Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1972

  • The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973

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. 34, no. 241.

Inscriptions

lower center in pen and brown ink: E. Leutze, Christmas 1852

Wikidata ID

Q64559362

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