Woman Playing the Piano, Study for "Matinée"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2002.256
People: Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Woman Playing the Piano, Study for "Matinée"
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1884
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/100028

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

22.4 x 14.8 cm (8 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: u. l., graphite: A. M.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: David M. Daniels, New York, NY, Gift of the Estate of David Daniels. The drawing was offered at a Sotheby's auction, "Property from the Estates of David M. Daniels and Stevan Beck Baloga," New York, October 29, 2002, lot 94, bought in. The Estate subsequently offered it to the Fogg.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Estate of David M. Daniels
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: 2002.256
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Gisela Hopp and Eckhard Schaar, Menzel - Der Beobachter, ed. Werner Hofmann, Prestel Verlag (Munich, Germany, 1982), cat. no. 139, p. 225, repr.
Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2002-2003 (Cambridge, MA, 2004), repr. p. 23

Verification Level

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