Harvard Art Museums > 1965.347: An Elderly Man in a Military Topcoat Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"An Elderly Man in a Military Topcoat (Adolph Menzel) , 1965.347,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/296401. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1965.347 People Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany) Title An Elderly Man in a Military Topcoat Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1881 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/296401 Physical Descriptions Medium Graphite on off-white paper Dimensions 20 × 12.5 cm (7 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: lower right: A. M. 81 Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Bollag] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1928), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs Accession Year 1965 Object Number 1965.347 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 434, fig. 214 Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 62, repr. Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 141, repr. Reinhold Heller, Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections, exh. cat., David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, 2003), pp. 48-49, cat. no. 69, fig. 32 Exhibition History Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947 Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981 German Art of the Latter 19th Century, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/08/1982 - 12/31/1982 From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983 Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 10/03/2002 - 01/05/2003 The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
