The Happy Family with Children Playing

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with brown and gray washes over graphite on two joined sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.9 x 34.6 cm (10 9/16 x 13 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and The Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Memorial Fund in memory of Judith Rothschild

Accession Number

1995.41.1

Artists / Makers

Johann Eleazar Schenau (artist) German, 1737 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Schenau

Provenance

Adolf Glüenstein [born 1849], Hamburg (Lugt 123); (sale Frankfurt, Prestel, 1-3 January 1920, lot 135); (Franz Meyer, Antiquariat, Dresden); Richard von Kühlmann [1873-1948], Germany; (Katrin Bellinger, Munich); purchased by NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Bellinger, Katrin, Ms.
Glüenstein, Adolf
Kühlmann, Richard von
Meyer, Franz, Mr.

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 112.

Bibliography

2001: Robison, Andrew, "Later American Collectors of Later German Drawings," Master Drawings 39, no. 2, Summer 2001, 184, 185-186, fig. 15.