Double portrait with Skeleton | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR56.33
People: Lovis Corinth, German (Tapiau, East Prussia [now Gvardeysk, Russia] 1858 - 1925 Zandvoort, The Netherlands)
Title: Double portrait with Skeleton
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Doppelbildnis mit Skelett
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1916
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223808

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white Japanese paper

Technique

Etching and drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 15 x 9.8 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
sheet: 40.4 x 28.8 cm (15 7/8 x 11 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Lovis Corinth; in plate at u.c.: LC 1916
inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, German: probedruck (?)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Schwarz 278

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Erich Cohn
Accession Year: 1956
Object Number: BR56.33
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Karl Schwarz, ed., Das graphische Werk von Lovis Corinth (San Francisco, 1985), cat. no. 278

Exhibition History

German Art of the Latter 19th Century, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/08/1982 - 12/31/1982

Verification Level

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BR56.33: Double portrait with Skeleton