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In a Railway Carriage (After a Night's Journey)
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right, in brush and brown gouache: "Menzel / 51"
Provenance
Wilhelm Itzinger, Berlin, by 1898 [Boetticher]. Galerie Heinemann, Munich, from Dec. 15, 1903; sold to Hofrat Hanfstaengl, Munich, Jan. 7, 1904 [Heinemann stockbook]. Dr. Martin Söhle, Hamburg, by 1905 [Tschudi]; sold, E. A. Fleischmann’s, Munich, Oct. 30, 1907, lot 100. Alfred Sommerguth (1859-1950), Berlin; his forced sale: Hans W. Lange, Berlin, Feb. 7, 1939, lot 21. Private Collection, Germany; sold in cooperation with the heirs of Alfred Sommerguth, Sotheby’s, New York, May 5, 2011, lot 37, to Colnaghi, London; sold by Katrin Bellinger, Munich, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
Dresden, Aquarelle Exhibition, 1877. Berlin, Fritz Gurlitts Salon, 1881. Berlin, Lepke Berlin, 1882. Vienna, Internationale Jubiläumsausstellung im Künstlerhaus, 1888. Berlin, Thannhauser Gallery, Adolph von Menzel 1815–1905, April 1928, pp. 22-23, cat. 75 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Publications
Max Jordan and Robert Dohme, Das Werk Adolph Menzels: vom künstler autorisierte Ausgabe, 2 vols (Munich, 1890), vol. 2:pl. 25. Friederich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten jahrhunderts (Dresden, 1898), p. 19, no. 9. Hugo von Tschudi, Ausstellung von Werken Adolf von Menzels (Berlin, 1905), no. 302. Hermann Beenken, Das neunsehnte Jahrundert in der deutschen Kunst: Aufgaben und Gehalte Versuch einer Rechenschaft (Munich, 1944), p. 330. Adolph Menzel, exh. cat. (Berlin, 1980), p. 117. Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher (editors) Adolph Menzel, 1815–1905, Between Romanticism and Impressionism, exh. cat. (New Haven, 1997), pp. 53, and 228 (not cited by name, but within discussion of no. 87).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adolph Menzel / German, 1815–1905
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- Gouache, with touches of pastel and oil paint, on cream wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 27.3 × 33 cm (10 3/4 × 13 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- gouache
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Accession no.
- 2012.554
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