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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1997.30
People
Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)
Title
A Woman in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Costume (Study for Eve in Kleist's "Der zerbrochene Krug")
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1876-1877
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287217

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
21 × 13.3 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Ad. M
  • label: formerly back of frame, ink on paper: P 782A (1 of 2) / MENZEL / STUDY OF AN OLD WOMAN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Camille Groult. Lore and Rudolf Heinemann, New York, bequest to Harvard Art Musuems, 1996

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
1997.30
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Felice Stampfle and Cara Dufour Denison, Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY, 1973), no. 22, repr.
  • William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 25, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 05/01/1973 - 07/27/1973
  • Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000

Verification Level

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