Head of a Bearded Man in Half-Profile

Prints and Drawings

1894

Adolf Menzel
German, 1815-1905

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel
Title: Head of a Bearded Man in Half-Profile
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1894
Medium: Graphite, with stumping and wet brush, on wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right: "A. Menzel / 94"
Dimensions: 41.7 × 29 cm (16 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Acquisition Fund
Reference Number: 2018.18
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Rolf Hochhuth (ed.), Theodor Storm: Am grauen Meer. Gesammelte Werke (Hamburg: Mosaik, 1962), p. 621 (ill.).
James Gurney and Christian Schlierkamp (ed.), Adolph Menzel: Drawings and Paintings (Dover: Mineola, NY, 2016), p. xxiii, 49, fig. 49.

Private collection, by 1962 [suggested in Theodor Storm, 1962]. Sold, Neumeister, Munich, Dec. 12, 1990, lot 268. Private collection, Berlin; sold, Neumeister, Munich, Mar. 28, 2012, lot 1014. Sold by Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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