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The Card Game
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "A. Menzel 99."
Provenance
Sold, Christie’s, London, Feb. 8, 2001, lot 403, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 121, cat. 84 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 121, cat. 84 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adolph Menzel / German, 1815–1905
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Graphite and fabricated black chalk, with stumping, erasing, and scraping, with touches of brush and black ink, on cream wove paper, edge mounted on ivory wove card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 19.8 × 26.7 cm (7 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 26.1 × 33.5 cm (10 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.980
More by Adolph Menzel in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005922
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