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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.160
People
Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, German (1779 - 1857)
Title
Girl Checking a Spirited Horse
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312425

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite heightened with white on brown paper
Dimensions
26.7 x 21.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: M R del

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sir Edward Buchan. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.160
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 438, fig. 216
  • Ernst Scheyer, "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1949), vol. XII, no. 3, pp. 231-250, no. 112
  • Paul Chadbourne Mills, "The Buffalo Hunter and Other Related Versions of the Subject in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Literature", Archivero I: Research Papers on Works of Art in the Collection of The Santa Barb, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1973), pp. 147-148, fig. 1
  • Paul Chadbourne Mills, The Buffalo Hunter and Other Related Versions of the Subject in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Literature, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 2005), p. 23, fig. 12

Exhibition History

  • German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/17/1949 - 12/15/1949

Verification Level

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