1943.90: Before Confession

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.90

People

Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)

Title

Before Confession

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1875

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298151

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache on cream wove paper adhered to cream card

Dimensions

22.9 x 16 cm (9 x 6 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Frau Schwabe, Berlin, by 1890; B. Lippert, Magdeburg, by 1906; Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin; acquired from them through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop (DM 10,600); 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

1943.90

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Max Jordan and Robert Dohme, Das Werk Adolph Menzels: Vom Künstler autorisierte Ausgabe (3 vols.), Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Munich, 1890), pl. 83
• Dr. E. Schwedeler-Meyer and Dr. J. Kern, Adolph von Menzel. Abbildungen seiner Gemaelde und Studien, ed. Dr. Hugo von Tschudi, Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann A.-G. (Munich, Germany, 1906), no. 611
• Jens Christian Jensen, Adolph Menzel, Realist, Historist, Maler des Hofes, exh. cat., Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Schweinfurt, Germany, 1981), pg. 146
• Annette Schlagenhauff, Adolph Menzel: Works in Harvard Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1991), pp. 12-13, repr.
• 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. 135, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

• Eröffungs-Ausstellung unseres neuen Berliner Hauses, Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin, 01/01/1927 - 12/31/1927
• Adolph von Menzel, 1815-1905, Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin, 04/01/1928 - 04/30/1928
• 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

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