Three figures lean on the railing of a bridge overlooking a river
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

At lower left center we see from behind, a group of three women standing close to each other at the railing of a bridge. They each wear long dresses, the one closest to us in white, the next one in orange and the next in dark blue, as they all look away from us and down at the water.. Beyond them, the bridge runs straight to a road on the other shore, past white houses and a large leafy green tree which is reflected in the river. The sky is denoted by a series of thin, alternately blue and white vertical lines.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.263
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
The Girls on the Bridge
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Pikene på broen
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1918
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/343030

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut and lithograph printed in blue, dark blue, red-orange, green, and yellow ink on buff wove paper
Technique
Woodcut and lithography
Dimensions
sheet: 56.6 x 48.3 cm (22 5/16 x 19 in.)
image: 49.6 x 43 cm (19 1/2 x 16 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., in graphite: tigg- // TGG
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, at left, graphite: Schiefler 488b / 1916/17
  • stamp: verso, black stamp: [castle tower] [(private collection of Richard Zinser, New York (Lugt 5581)]
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, below lower right corner of image, graphite: Edvard Munch
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, various graphite inscriptions: Schiefler 488b / 1916/17 / £igg- / TGG..
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: [tower] [Richard A. Zinser (Lugt 5581)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection of Richard H. Zinser (Lugt 5581). Estate of Wendell Cherry; [Sotheby's], sold; to Philip and Lynn Straus (1991-2012); Lynn Straus, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll III
Standard Reference Number
Woll 628, Schiefler 488

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn G. Straus in memory of Philip A. Straus
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.263
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, exh. cat., W. W. Norton & Company and Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (New York and London, 1983), pl. 104
  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Guide to the Exhibition "Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker. Prints from The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection", brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1983), checklist

Exhibition History

  • Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/06/1983 - 11/27/1983; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, 01/29/1984 - 03/25/1984
  • 32Q: 1440 Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin (Expressionism), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/19/2016 - 03/31/2017
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/11/2015 - 05/10/2015
  • Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2025 - 07/27/2025

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