The Happy Family with Children Playing
Artist, German, 1737 - 1806
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with brown and gray washes over graphite on two joined sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 26.9 x 34.6 cm (10 9/16 x 13 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1995.41.1
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Schenau
Watermarks
fleur-de-lis
Wikidata ID
Q64581899