Figure Studies
1801
Artist, German, 1759 - 1841
Johann Georg von Dillis
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with watercolor over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann
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Dimensions
sheet: 28.6 x 24.4 cm (11 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2007.111.65
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Joseph Fach, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1976. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 36, 38,140-141, 142, 150, 232, no. 44 (entries by Hinrich Sieveking).
Bibliography
1991
Johann Georg von Dillis 1759-1841, Landschaft und Menschenbild, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Albertinum, Dresden, 1991 - 1992, 154, under no. 56.
Inscriptions
color notes by the artist in black ink, at top left next to the standing man: grün/grün/grün; at bottom left next to the seated man smoking a pipe: grün/gelbschatten/schwarz; at bottom right next to the standing man wearing a coat: gelb/braun
Watermarks
fragment, top of Strasburg Lily (probably Churchill 408)
Wikidata ID
Q64581972