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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.531
People
Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Portrait Group: Jean Paul, Schiller, Goethe, and Herder
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1855
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298239

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, heavily fixed, on dark cream card
Dimensions
actual: 44.6 x 57.1 cm (17 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.531
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 23, repr.
  • Klaus Günzel, "Viele Gäste wünsch ich heut' Mir zu meinem Tische!": Goethes Besucher im Haus am Frauenplan, Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger (Weimar, 1999), repr. p. 87
  • Sibylle Ehringhaus, Adolph Menzel in Weimar, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 1999), repr. frontispiece
  • Michael Fried, Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2002), p. 116, fig. 70

Exhibition History

  • 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • From Mengs to Menzel: 19th-Century German Drawings, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/28/1981 - 12/22/1981
  • German Art of the Latter 19th Century, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/08/1982 - 12/31/1982
  • 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
  • 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

Verification Level

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