Harvard Art Museums > 1943.532: Head of a Woman Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of a Woman (Adolph Menzel) , 1943.532,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297811. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.532 People Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany) Title Head of a Woman Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1894 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297811 Physical Descriptions Medium Graphite, stumped, on off-white wove paper Dimensions 20.9 x 12.9 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Scott and Fowles, New York]; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1923 ($350); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.532 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pg. 145 Annette Schlagenhauff, Adolph Menzel: Works in Harvard Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1991), pp. 30-31 Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher, Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism, exh. cat., ed. Claude Keisch, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1996), pg. 451 Michael Fried, Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2002), pp. 226, 292, n. 23 Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 138, repr. (color) Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 158-159, 284, repr. p. 157 as fig. 4 Exhibition History 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981 German Art of the Latter 19th Century, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/08/1982 - 12/31/1982 From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983 A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004 Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
