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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.532
People
Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Head of a Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1894
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297811

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, stumped, on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
20.9 x 12.9 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Scott and Fowles, New York]; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1923 ($350); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.532
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pg. 145
  • Annette Schlagenhauff, Adolph Menzel: Works in Harvard Collections, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1991), pp. 30-31
  • Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher, Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism, exh. cat., ed. Claude Keisch, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1996), pg. 451
  • Michael Fried, Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2002), pp. 226, 292, n. 23
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 138, repr. (color)
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 158-159, 284, repr. p. 157 as fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017

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