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Hans Baldung Grien

Half-Figure of an Old Woman with a Cap, c. 1535

Not on View

Medium

charcoal with green wash added by a later hand on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall (approximate): 39.6 x 23.6 cm (15 9/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
support: 39.6 x 24.9 cm (15 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edith G. Rosenwald

Accession Number

1978.10.6

Artists / Makers

Hans Baldung Grien (artist) German, 1484/1485 - 1545

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in monogram: HGB

Provenance

Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald [1893-1988], Jenkintown, PA; gift 1978 to NGA.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing J., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1950: Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no.31, repro.

1955: Master Drawings, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1960: Old Master Drawings, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1960, no. 18, repro.

1961: Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 63, repro.

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 24-25.

1981: Hans Baldung Grien: Prints & Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1981, no. 89, repro.

2018: Dürer e il Rinascimento Tedesco, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2018.

2019: Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, no. 251.

Bibliography

1943: Mongan, Elizabeth. Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1943: 51, repro.

1947: Tietze 1947, 36.

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