Harvard Art Museums > 1943.90: Before Confession 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"Before Confession (Adolph Menzel) , 1943.90,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/298151. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.90 People Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany) Title Before Confession Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1875 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/298151 Physical Descriptions Medium Gouache on cream wove paper adhered to cream card Dimensions 22.9 x 16 cm (9 x 6 5/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Frau Schwabe, Berlin, by 1890; B. Lippert, Magdeburg, by 1906; Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin; acquired from them through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop (DM 10,600); 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 1943.90 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 Max Jordan and Robert Dohme, Das Werk Adolph Menzels: Vom Künstler autorisierte Ausgabe (3 vols.), Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Munich, 1890), pl. 83 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. 611 Jens Christian Jensen, Adolph Menzel, Realist, Historist, Maler des Hofes, exh. cat., Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Schweinfurt, Germany, 1981), pg. 146 Annette Schlagenhauff, Adolph Menzel: Works in Harvard Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1991), pp. 12-13 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. 135, repr. (color) Exhibition History Eröffungs-Ausstellung unseres neuen Berliner Hauses, Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin, 01/01/1927 - 12/31/1927 Adolph von Menzel, 1815-1905, Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin, 04/01/1928 - 04/30/1928 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 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