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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21545
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Printed by Otto Felsing, German (1854 - 1920)
Title
Street Scene at Night
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Evening Scene
Original Language Title: Nattlig gatescene
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1896
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253539

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mezzotint and drypoint printed in blackish brown ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
plate: 23.8 × 29.7 cm (9 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.)
sheet: 34.9 × 50.5 cm (13 3/4 × 19 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin, below the right corner of the plate, graphite: E Munch
  • inscription: lower margin, just below the left corner of the plate, graphite: [illeg.; Felsing: the printer's signature]
  • inscription: lower right corner of sheet: Z.
  • collector's mark: recto, lower right corner of sheet, blue stamp: HHH [Harald Horst Halvorsen, Oslo; vertical monogram, within a rectangular border, not in Lugt]
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp, stamped twice: P A S / - / L G S [Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, Lugt 5642]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M21545
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Schiefler hat no. 84. - 15 ex.
  • (not assigned): in the sheet's lowerleft and right corners, apparently in the same hand, graphite : C202 / Z.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Harald Horst Halvorsen, Oslo (with his mark). [Galleri Bellman, New York] sold; to Philip and Lynn Straus, 1982, gift; to Harvard Art Museums

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll c
Standard Reference Number
Woll 95, Schiefler 84a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn and Philip A. Straus, class of 1937
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
M21545
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, exh. cat., W. W. Norton & Company and Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (New York and London, 1983), pl. 18
  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Guide to the Exhibition "Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker. Prints from The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection", brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1983), checklist
  • Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, Orfeus Publishing (Oslo, 2012), no. 95, p. 128

Exhibition History

  • Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/06/1983 - 11/27/1983; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, 01/29/1984 - 03/25/1984

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