Der Bärenzwinger im zoologischen Garten (The Bear Pit in the Zoological Gardens)
1851
Adolph Menzel
Artist, German, 1815 - 1905
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph on Chine appliqué on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.8 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 44.3 × 35.9 cm (17 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.6143
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Series Title
Versuche auf Stein mit Pinsel und Schabeisen (Experiments on Stone with Brush and Scraper)
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1933
A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 161.
An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 200.
1950
Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to 11 venues (California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN; and Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN), 1950-1952, no cat.
2009
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010
Inscriptions
recto: in stone, in image, at upper right: Menzel
Wikidata ID
Q65018474