Hands Holding a Sword and a Tricorn, c. 1790

Not on View

Medium

charcoal touched with white chalk on brown laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 29.4 x 38.4 cm (11 9/16 x 15 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Diane Allen Nixon

Accession Number

2003.57.1

Artists / Makers

Anton Graff (artist) Swiss, 1736 - 1813

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 5314 Bo3 k11/7; by later hand, lower left versoin graphite: 6710/FER

Provenance

Estate of the artist; by descent to his son, Karl Anton Graff, Dresden (died 1832); (his sale, Dresden, 19 November 1832). Constantin Kraukling, Dresden; by descent to his heirs; Fritz Arndt, Oberwartha (not in Lugt; his stamp on old mount). (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19-20 March 1914, among lots 56 or 61). (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner, C.G., Mr.
Fritz, Arndt
Graff, Karl Anton
Kraukling, Constantin

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2007: Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Bibliography

1967: Berckenhagen, Ekhart. Anton Graff, Leben und Werk. Berlin, 1967: no. 1694.