A Seated Young Woman Wearing a Fashionable Hat

1800/1803

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Associated Names
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Artist, German, 1759 - 1835

The image depicts the side profile of a woman seated with bent legs. She has delicate facial features, styled curly hair adorned with flowers and ribbons, and is wearing a dress with short sleeves and flat slippers. The background is plain with shading.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fürst Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau (1676 - 1747) or Herzog Leopold Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740 - 1817) (Lugt 1708b). Einsiedel Collection. Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, June 4, 1993, lot 5424. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

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Exhibition History

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 36, no. 46, under no. 36.

Bibliography

1920

  • Jentsch, Ernst. "Der Radierer Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1757 Berlin- 1835 Dessau." Unpublished dissertation. Breslau, 1920: no. 10.

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Wikidata ID

Q64538052

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