2002.256: Woman Playing the Piano, Study for "Matinée"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.256
- People
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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 with extensive stumping on on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 22.4 x 14.8 cm (8 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: u. l., graphite: A. M.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Permissions
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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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