The Artist's Sister Emilie

1851

Adolph Menzel

Artist, German, 1815 - 1905

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Postle Heseltine, London [b. 1843] (Lugt 1508); (his sale, London, 1912, no. 28). Paul Cassirer, Berlin. Julius Böhler, Lucerne. Alfred E. Stehli, Küsnacht-Zurich. Julius Böhler, Munich. Walter and Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1978; Adolf and Ursula Ratjen, Munich; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Ausstellung Adolph von Menzel aus Anlass seines 50. Todestages, National-Galerie and Museum Dahlem, Berlin, 1955, no. 51.

  • German Drawings, Masterpieces from Five Centuries. , NGA, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1955 - 1956, no. 144.

1956

  • Deutsche Zeichnungen 1400 - 1900, Staatliche Graphische Sammlungen Munich, Staatlichen Museen Berlin, Kunsthalle Hamburg. Munich, 1956, 60, no. 163, pl. 56.

1963

  • Adolph Menzel, Handzeichnungen, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1963, 58, no. 50.

1977

  • Handzeichnungen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 1400-1900, und einige Bronzen und Terrakotten. Galerie Julius Böhler, Munich, Summer 1977, no. 33.

1982

  • Menzel der Beobachter, Hamburger Kunsthalle. Munich, 1982, 102, no. 53, reproduced on p. 103 and the cover.

1996

  • Adolph Menzel, 1815 - 1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, NGA, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1996 - 1997: 242, note 1, under no. 55 (entry by Andreas Heese). (German edition, Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905: Das Labyrinth der Wirklichkeit, 146, note 1, under no. 55.)

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 19, 34, 38, under no. 101, no. 102.

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1912

  • Original Drawings, Chiefly of the German School, in the Collection of J. P. H.. Privately printed. London, 1912: no. 28.

1945

  • Hugelshofer, Walter. "Über Adolph Menzel," DU, Schweizerische Monatsschrift 6 (July 1945): 7 (reprod.).

1963

  • Moskowitz, Ira. Kindlers Meisterzeichnungen aller Epochen, Deutsche, flämische und holländische Zeichnungen. Zurich, 1963, no. 476.

1979

  • Keller, Horst. Deutsche Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1979: 89, 132, pl. 130.

1984

  • Das grosse Lexikon der Graphik. Künstler, Techniken, Hinweise für Sammler. Braunschweig, 1984: 333 (reprod.).

1987

  • Bailey, Colin J. Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Draawings. Volume V. German Nineteenth-Century Drawings. Oxford, 1987, 95, under no. 82.

1991

  • Hochhuth, Rolf. Menzel, Maler des Lichts. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, 1991: 80 (reprod.), 205.

1999

  • Zeichnungen aus fünf Jahrhunderten: Eine Stuttgarter Privatsammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, 1999: 253, note 4, under no. 135.

2001

  • Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (Summer 2001): 110, note 15, and front cover.

2010

  • Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 10-11, 12, 15, fig. 15.

Inscriptions

signed and dated along left edt in black chalk: Ad. Menzel/2 Juli/1851; verso, Swiss customs stamp

Wikidata ID

Q64533360

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