The Monastery in the Forest, 1823

Not on View

Medium

etching on chine collé

Dimensions

plate: 19.5 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

sheet: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Blechen 1940, no. 477, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.172

Artists / Makers

Carl Blechen (artist) German, 1798 - 1840

Image Use

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Inscription

lettered below image, at right: Blechen 1823; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: Karl Blechen. 1823. Ruve 477. / 1798 Kottbus - Berlin 1840 / 7645

Provenance

Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Lugt 1640); Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (Lugt 2482). Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt [c.1840-1914], Berlin (Lugt 2926). (C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 18, 1993; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Goldschmidt, Rudolf Philip
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Exhibition History

2014: Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1940: Karl Blechen: Leben, Würdigung, Werk. Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1940: no. 477, only.