M21072: Paolo and Francesca (small version)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M21072

People

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German (Duisburg, Germany 1881 - 1919 Berlin, Germany)

Title

Paolo and Francesca (small version)

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Paolo und Francesca klein (Querformat)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1913

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/255110

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 11.9 x 15.9 cm (4 11/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: W. Lehmbruck
• inscription: lower right margin, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: W. Lehmbruck
• inscription: upper and right margins, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: upper margin: Frauenkopf; right margin: Arm [?] [artist's notations?]
• inscription: lower left margin, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: Paolo u. Franceska [title]
• inscription: verso, graphite, handwritten: [dealers' inscriptions:]
  Paolo u. Franceska (klein Langformat}
  No 9 1 [or 4, or 7]
  400.-
  37
  ny 3036
  92.
  73.
  199 a L.
  11

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, December 1989.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

ii/ii

Standard Reference Number

C. 37, Petermann 70

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell

Accession Year

1989

Object Number

M21072

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 143

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