Seated Girl | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR36.28
People: Ernst Barlach, German (Wedel, Germany 1870 - 1938 Rostock, Germany)
Manufactured by Schwarzburger Werkstätten für Porzellankunst
Title: Seated Girl
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Sitzendes Mädchen; Russian Girl
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1908
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/226056

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions

22.5 x 21.1 x 23 cm (8 7/8 x 8 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

manufacturer's mark: Schwarzburger Werkstätten für Porzellankunst

U II B

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Abels Gemälde-Galerie, Cologne, Germany, sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1936.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Schult 83

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Accession Year: 1936
Object Number: BR36.28
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Friedrich Schult, ed., Ernst Barlach. Das plastische Werk, Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co. (Hamburg, Germany, 1960), no. 83
Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), pp. 10, 19, repr. p. 75 as fig. 138

Exhibition History

Works by Ernst Barlach, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1983 - 08/26/1983

Verification Level

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BR36.28: Seated Girl