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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1987.19
People
Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)
Title
The Willow Tree
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Die Weidenbaum
Series/Book Title: Die Dichter der deutschen Volkes
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1843
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221597

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
22.8 × 15.5 cm (9 × 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: A Menzel 1843

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Unidentified dealer, California], sold; to Daniel Bell, Cambridge, c. 1980, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1987

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
proof before letters
Standard Reference Number
Dorgelöh 1135

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Daniel Bell
Accession Year
1987
Object Number
1987.19
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 208
  • Anne Leonard, Arabesque, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 2019), pp. 10-11, cat. 26, fig. 14

Exhibition History

  • Arabesque, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 12/14/2019 - 03/22/2020

Verification Level

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