1943.288: The Statue

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.288

People

Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)

Title

The Statue

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1852

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298132

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, white watercolor, and white gouache on gray wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 28.2 x 22.2 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown ink, right: A.M. 7te Febr. 1852

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Theodore Fontane, Berlin, 1906; Leo Lewin, Breslau; his sale, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, April 12, 1928, no. 123; Galerie Caspari, Munich; acquired from them through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, November 1927; 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

1943.288

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Dr. E. Schwedeler-Meyer and Dr. J. Kern, Adolph von Menzel. Abbildungen seiner Gemaelde und Studien, ed. Dr. Hugo von Tschudi, Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann A.-G. (Munich, Germany, 1906), no. 311
• Annette Schlagenhauff, Adolph Menzel: Works in Harvard Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1991), pp. 8-9, repr.
• Gisold Lammel, Adolf Menzel und seine Kreise, Verlag der Kunst (Dresden, 1993), pg. 74
• 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. 22, repr. (color)
• Claude Keisch, Peter-Klaus Schuster, and Moritz Wullen, Fontane und die bildende Kunst, exh. cat., Henschel Verlag and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie (Berlin, 1998), pg. 153
• 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. 134, repr. (color)
• Adolph Menzel und Johann Gottfried Schadow, Schadow Gesellschaft Berlin e.V. (Berlin, 2011), repr. on cover
• Klaus-Peter Möller, Mit Zopf und Knebelbart. Adolph Menzels Albumblatt für Theodor Fontanes Tunnel-Album, Fontane Blätter, Theodor-Fontane-Archiv / Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft (Potsdam, 2016), 102, pp. 132-156, pp. 132-156, repr. p. 133

Exhibition History

• Ausstellung von Werken Adolph Menzel, Königliche Nationalgalerie, 01/01/1905 - 12/31/1905
• 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
• 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 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

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