Self-Portrait Sketching
1752
Artist, German, 1712 - 1775

Artwork overview
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Medium
black, red, blue, yellow, and white chalks, with stumping on laid paper, laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 21 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.159
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Paul Prouté, Paris). (sale, Galerie am Neumarkt, Zurich, 3 November 1972, no. 214). (sale, Arno Winterberg, Heidelberg, 4 May 1979, no. 856). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 38, no. 27, under no. 28.
Bibliography
1970
Galerie Paul Prouté, S.A. Dessins originaux anciens et modernes... (Catalogue "Uzès"). Paris, 1970: 14, no. 34.
Inscriptions
signed and dated at top left in brown ink: G. F. Schmidt/fecit 1752
Watermarks
not deciphered
Wikidata ID
Q64571172